Eminence Quotes

I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am important. I am magnificent. I am foremost. I am a hero. I am a warrior. I am a lion, and I am virile.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"

I don't want to just be known as good. I want to be special.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world.

The moment is supreme.

A person is big if his work is big.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

I am pleased to see such a scientific experiment that would reflect on the glory of my reign..

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.