Greatness Quotes
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Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
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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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Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.
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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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Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
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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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Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."
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I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.
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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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you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all
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Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.
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Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
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In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
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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.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
