Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee -
Greatness
Quotes
2 Sourced Quotes
View all Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
Source
Report...
The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," — it is greatness itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Source
Report...
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Quote of the day
You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Joshua Reynolds
Christian Nestell Bovee
Born:
February 22, 1820
Died:
January 18, 1904
(aged 83)
More about Christian Nestell Bovee...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
