Greatness Quotes

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand.

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My life is basically a big chunk of 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.

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

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Make greatness attainable by all.

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Greatness comes with discipline.

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.