Greatness Quotes

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Greatness is not always largeness.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

The most useful is the greatest.

You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Greatness comes with patience.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

Greatness follows those who lead the way.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

What this game's really about is using each day as a platform to express your greatness.

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.