Greatness Quotes

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

The greatness of work is inside man.

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Great is not great to the greater.

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.