Greatness Quotes

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Greatness is earned, not given.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Great men have the nature of a child.

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the odds, in the face of danger, and win.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.