Greatness Quotes
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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Believe in your own potential for greatness.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
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I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
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The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.
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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.
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It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
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Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One.
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The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.
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In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity
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Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
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His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.
