Greatness Quotes

• The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul
  • Ambition
  • Greatness

• That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

  

  Lester Maddox
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Joy
  • Christian

• Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • May
  • Hate
  • Alone

• We have reached the bottom of the 9th inning, and now it is happening, what we normally experience at any ballpark when a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the hometown fans come to root for him. He has come too far, he has journeyed too long to drop it.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Greatness

• Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • Greatness

• You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

  

  The Ultimate Warrior
  • Belief
  • Judging
  • Motivational

• What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. National Socialism, but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Color

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

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • Music
  • American
  • Greatness

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Great
  • Greatness

• The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • Tears
  • Greatness

• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Life
  • Character
  • True

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

  

  John Buchan
  • Humanity
  • Leadership
  • Greatness

• Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

  

  Noah Hawley
  • Greatness
  • Reaching
  • Fiasco

• Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Faith
  • Motivational

• When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Integrity
  • Maintain

• Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

  

  Debbie Stabenow
  • Life
  • American
  • Value

• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Quality

• I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • School
  • Greatness

• To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Ambition
  • Ends
  • Intrigue

• The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Greatness

• Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Greatness

• Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • Musician
  • Consciousness
  • Worship

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