Top 100 Quotes About Greatness
#1. You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
Fran Tarkenton
#2. Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#3. Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
Wallace D. Wattles
#5. America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John W. Gardner
#8. Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others
Dominick Cruz
#10. You have one lousy dream, and you think you're destined for coloring book greatness.
Tarryn Fisher
#11. Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.
Jewel
#12. Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.
J. J. Watt
#14. If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle
#16. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. Knowledge and courage contribute in turn to greatness. Since they are immortal, they immortalize. You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world of darkness. Judgement and strength, eyes and hands; without courage, wisdom is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian
#18. True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!
Robert Ley
#22. . . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.
Saul Bellow
#23. To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
Albert Einstein
#25. Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.
Lewis Howes
#28. Believing in yourself ... is always the X factor in the equation of achieving greatness!
Timothy Pina
#29. In nearly all cases where greatness is achieved, it's the goal that drives motivation and discipline - not the other way around.
Mark Murphy
#30. So many Jonathans. A plague of literary Jonathans. If you read only the New York Times Book Review, you'd think it was the most common male name in America. Synonymous with talent, greatness. Ambition, vitality.
Jonathan Franzen
#31. A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
Joyce Cary
#32. Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.
Julius Charles Hare
#33. The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
Arthur Helps
#34. When you serve the humanity with compassion and kindness,
You express your spontaneous love and inner greatness.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
#36. A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#37. It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.
Fred Hoyle
#38. For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along. "Ah,
Daniel Wallace
#39. Sometimes you don't choose greatness, it chooses you. And when it does, it requires a certain level of understandin', courage and a degree of blind hope.
Jay Grewal
#40. The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
Will Self
#41. Those who rise to greatness, have endured enormous struggles in their lifetime. It is through their challenges that they forge their will to survive and to keep rising to the top no matter what adversity is thrown against them.
Timothy Pina
#42. For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#43. Work to connect yourself to the allness of life
instead of identifying with the smallness of it
and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.
Guy Finley
#44. 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
#45. In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.
Frederick William Robertson
#46. The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.
Adolf Hitler
#47. What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
Martin Heidegger
#48. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle.
#49. The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
Vincent Massey
#50. The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
- The Greatness of Saturn
Robert E. Svoboda
#51. Your life is a message someone is reading every day. Give a bold message of God's great love and the greatness we are designed for! #BEMORE
Sandi Krakowski
#52. The possessor of such great expectations, - farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;
Charles Dickens
#53. Her body looked to be only a healthy diet and some regular exercise away from greatness,
Jonathan Franzen
#54. Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
Orlando Bloom
#55. The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon
#56. In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
O. Henry
#57. Giving glory is a natural human response to witnessing greatness, which is why our world is infatuated with celebrities. We are addicted to greatness. And when we see it, we ascribe worth and value to it. Our
J.R. Vassar
#58. Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#59. Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
Yip Harburg
#60. What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.
Chalene Johnson
#61. Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness? He
Steven Erikson
#62. The true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.
Blaise Pascal
#63. A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness
Mark Peter Evans
#64. Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor
#65. All greatness must first take its shape in dreams.
Jean Plaidy
#67. I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
Edwin Land
#68. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting: I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more.
William Shakespeare
#69. It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
Edward Gardner
#71. Not because he had complete courage based on overwhelming strength, which is merely a matter of course, but because, by his sorrow for wrongdoing ad his willingness to do anything to expiate it, he showed greatness of soul.
Edith Hamilton
#72. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
John Piper
#73. Look not at
the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
Thomas Hobbes
#74. So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.
Lady Gaga
#75. The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#76. Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.
Joel Osteen
#77. When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.
Gary Keller
#78. To be daunted by 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?
Lemony Snicket
#79. Only a man who does not survive his one supreme act remains the indisputable master of his identity and possible greatness because he withdraws into death from the possible consequences and continuation of what he began.
Hannah Arendt
#80. What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#81. The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.
Nikki Rowe
#82. If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.
Taraji P. Henson
#83. Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
Saint Bernard
#84. We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.
Lou Holtz
#85. Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness ... For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.
Sherman Glenn Finesilver
#86. She shook her head in perplexity. "I'll never know where you got the idea that you were destined for greatness." She dropped the rest of the rabbit in the pot and begun to clean the underside of its skin. She would use the fur. "You certainly didn't inherit it from your forebears.
Ken Follett
#88. Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.
Marion Jones
#89. It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.
James Smithson
#90. Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.
Rachel Hamilton
#91. A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
Huey Lewis
#93. Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.
Wallace D. Wattles
#94. The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
Zig Ziglar
#95. We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
Epictetus
#97. Encouraging others can be the catalyst to unleashing their greatness.
Rob Liano
#98. Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.
Don Yaeger
#99. Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
#100. The greatest people are the ones who have not sought greatness, but served greatly the causes, values, and missions that were much bigger than them.
Henry Cloud
