Greatness Quotes

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

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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

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

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

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

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.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn't end with you.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Let your greatness bloom.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

When in doubt, choose greatness.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Success comes from within, not from without.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

A great ship asks deep water.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.