XIV, 6. Compare: "They ’re only truly great who are truly good", George Chapman, Revenge for Honour, Act v. Sc. 2.
Deipnosophistae (2nd century)
οὐκ ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ τὸ εὖ κείμενον εἶναι, ἀλλὰ ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ μέγα.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 286.
“The great in Evil, and the great in [Goodness|Good]]—both leave an immortal residue.”
Part 3, Chapter 12 (p. 181)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
As cited in: Margaret A. Byrnes, Jeanne Baxter (2006), The Principal's Leadership Counts!. p. 99
Good To Great And The Social Sectors, 2005
According to Michael A. Ledeen, this line has been falsely attributed to Tocqueville by Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan. See Tocqueville on American Character (2001), p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=gFjQUXYsSR0C&pg=PA25. Hillary Clinton in her acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention (July 29, 2016), said, without attribution, "America is great because America is good."
Misattributed
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 292.
“If there is a good will, there is great way.”
“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”
Kent Beck in: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant (2012) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.
“Greatness is the reward for genius…only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.”
page 66
Dark Rooms (2002)
