Greatness Quotes

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

Don't focus on the adversity; focus on God. No matter what you go through, stay in faith, be your best each day and trust that God will use it to position you for greatness.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

Let your life be guided by greatness

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.

Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart.

Greatness exists in all of us.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

But what is great can only begin great.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.