Greatness Down Quotes

#1. No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise..

Wallace D. Wattles

#2. the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,
Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,
Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,
Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power
So scatter and consume them in his rage,
That not a man should live to rue their fall.

Christopher Marlowe

#4. Anyone can look up at a mountain, but not everyone can look down from it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Jesse Jackson

#6. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Allegra Goodman

#7. I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!

Ryan Hall

#8. The inferior put others down;
the superior lift others up;
the great are an asset to themselves and the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Marianne Williamson

#10. As for children's working off aggressions, I'm against it. They are going to need all the aggressions they can contain for ultimate release in the adult world. Name one great man in history who did not go boiling and bubbling through childhood with a lashed-down safety valve.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star ... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

Lady Gaga

#12. Those who build are greater than those who tear down.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.

Andy Crouch

#14. Many great people have experienced some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Joseph Addison

#16. Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

Taylor Mali

#17. When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that's Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life's great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.

A.J. Darkholme

#18. Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Charles De Gaulle

#19. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of This World (179).

Alejo Carpentier

#20. Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great?
He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet.
There is no greatness there.

Russell H. Conwell

#21. Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!

Bayode Ojo

#23. And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.

Wayne Elise

#24. Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

Plutarch

#25. Nobody's perfect. They are weak, with ugly hearts, and they quickly turn to jealousy. They try to knock others down. It's so odd . . . In the world we live in, the greater a person is, the more difficult his or her life becomes.

Wataru Watari

#26. To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Oprah Winfrey

#27. Hold it down until you come up

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#28. Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Lionel Richie

#29. Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it's that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.

Eric Thomas

#30. Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?

Dan Pearce

#31. Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

Timbaland

#32. Do not look at your weakness or your small size; look at the Lord and His greatness that He will demonstrate through you. You now have the authority to tear down the strongholds of the enemy and to make New Zealand a fortress of righteousness.

Rick Joyner

#33. When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down.

Richmond Akhigbe

#34. Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi