Greatness Quotes
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Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.
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When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?
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I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.
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A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
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I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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It is empty to plead that the solution to the dilemmas of the present rests on the hands of the clock. The solution is in our hands. Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, Americans - white and Negro together - must be about the business of resolving the challenge which confronts us now.
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It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
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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.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.
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One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
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Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.
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A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.
