Greatness Quotes

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.

If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Who's gonna dare to be great?

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.