Greatness Quotes

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.

Begin where you are and what you are.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare your bodies and your minds for greatness.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Everybody in America has to be part of a shared sacrifice to create opportunity for greatness again for our people and our country.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

Every human being has the potential for greatness.

In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

Everyone has a potential for greatness.

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.