Greatness Quotes

• Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Decision

• No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

  

  Phillips Brooks
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Money

• I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

  

  Neal Cassady
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Adolescent

• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Great
  • Men
  • Children

• Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Live
  • Knowledge
  • Greatness

• It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Greatness

• The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • Greatness

• The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Greatness

• Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Service
  • Greatness

• No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • Small
  • Grace
  • Sins

• 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

• I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Glory
  • Highest
  • Haste

• Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

  

  John Cusack
  • Up
  • Famous
  • Greatness

• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Country
  • Heaven
  • Red

• That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • World
  • Greatness

• So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Great
  • Future

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

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul
  • Ambition
  • Greatness

• Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Never
  • Moment
  • Goodness

• Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

  

  James Harvey Robinson
  • Courage
  • Greatness

• The best company management is one that combines a sense of corporate greatness and destiny, with empathy for - and fidelity to - the average employee.

  

  David Packard
  • Destiny
  • Management
  • Empathy

• Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Greatness
  • Presidential

• Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Greatness

• The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Men
  • Pieces

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