Greatness Quotes

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.

It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.

The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness is based on the fact that there is no official religion.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

Obedience is a part of greatness.

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.

Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.