Greatness Quotes
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive
When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone.
