Greatness Quotations | Page 4

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget,

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

We thought we could do it in a couple of years, but it finally happened and it's real exciting for the kids, for the community, for the school, for our program. Our whole motto this year is 'Nothing but greatness.' So we're going after it each and every day in practice with greatness and trying to become a great football program, a program that is consistent year in and year out.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

There is concern that we are taking a step back. I don?t guarantee anything like results, that?s just not the way I was raised. I?m not saying there is just unbelievable greatness waiting to happen ? but we have potential for that just because of guys? attitudes and work ethics.

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.

There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and ask: Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

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.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

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.

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

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

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

My sense is that we're sitting among greatness, and your proudest accomplishments have not yet occurred.

Night and day, His servant serves Him, singing the Glorious Praises of the True Lord. Beholding the Glorious Greatness of the True Lord, Nanak blossoms forth.

I don't know what people see in Denver. They'll be battling the Raiders for the last slot in their division. I don't see greatness at all.

Bart's leadership and personality made him regarded by a huge amount of people in this community. The result is an example of greatness from a tremendous guy.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving, We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

He has been one of our great players this season, ... Flashes of greatness and then doing things that are not as good. But I think his attitude is exemplary. He made a mistake. He didn't get down on himself. He got back up.

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

He showed his competitive greatness tonight. At a point when things were getting shaky, Brian was our steadying force.

Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten.

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

I think that because Connecticut represents national champions, people should not get confused about what Connecticut is. Connecticut is a national power. They have been defending national champions. What makes Connecticut great is because they represent such greatness and accomplishment. So (a win) would say a lot.

I think it speaks to the greatness of the man that he truly gave me the gift of allowing me to tell the story warts and all, ... To be able to see the good, the bad, the light, the dark. And Ray Charles had a substantial dark side.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.

I see Marti as a god for the greatness of his heart and his distinction between good vs. evil. He had the intelligence of 1,000 men in his one brain, ... I want to cross the streets he crossed. That's why I'm here. I can hear the steps of Marti.

Out of all the young running backs I've watched, I like this kid best. Based upon the flashes of greatness I've seen from him, Julius has a chance to be special.

My most important priority is to restore our schools to greatness.

I think people got a view of absolute greatness, back and forth. The bigger the moment, both of them stepped up even bigger and bigger.

That's their greatness - they're a quality side that can put a ball on where it needs to go. We knew about it, but we got ourselves turned around and then we never recovered.

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.

When it's over, she will have put numbers on the board that will validate her greatness. I think that's unusual to be able to say about a freshman point guard competing in the level of competition that we do.

We are bidding farewell to the best one among us, fully conscious of his greatness. There is no better place that this square for us to say our goodbye. Let us do it in a dignified manner -- let us shout his name as one.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord.

We serve God by serving others. The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige, and position. If you can demand service from others, you've arrived. In our self-serving culture with its me-first mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

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

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

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

Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!