Top 100 Quotes About Life Greatness
#1. Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself
none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.
Vivian Gornick
#2. What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you from achieving your maximum potential.
Jaycee DeLorenzo
#3. Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light.
Debasish Mridha
#4. My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."
Ronald Reagan
#5. I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
Fernando Pessoa
#7. Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief.
Herman Melville
#8. Adivce from a horse
Take life's hurdels in stride.
Loosen the reins.
Be free sprited.
Keep the burrs from under your saddle.
Carry your friends when they need it.
Keep stable.
Gallop to greatness.
Ilan Shamir
#9. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson
#10. Your dream is a good one. [ ... ] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.
Orson Scott Card
#12. All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.
John Edgar Park
#13. If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
Brian Tracy
#14. Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#15. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
Bryant McGill
#16. How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#17. Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. I ask You to be with me in the things I face today. I praise You and Your greatness in the midst of all that seems large and looming in my life.
Stormie O'martian
#18. Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its ... It deals with it!
Wynton Marsalis
#19. We all try to be are greatest, but what if are greatest hasn't affected others with greatness ...
Taija Rae
#20. You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall ... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?
Steve Maraboli
#21. After all, none of us came here to live an ordinary life. Whether we believe it or not, we are all destined for greatness.
Thea Euryphaessa
#22. The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If one is great and full, one is God. And whenever smallness faces you, you should be great, and full-full of that greatness.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#23. Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.
Mensah Oteh
#24. A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
Chinua Achebe
#25. The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.
John F. Kennedy
#26. The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
Gottfried Leibniz
#28. A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
I hail the superhuman;
I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.
William Butler Yeats
#29. Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#30. Life is all about chances. It's all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there are times when you have to grab greatness by the balls and say, 'Hey! Greatness! I've got your nuts and you can't do a single godsdamn thing about it!
T.J. Klune
#33. Imagination is divine. Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Judy Blume
#35. Greatness is judged not by the negative things we say but the positive things we do".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#36. The relentless desire to give is evidence of love.
Mensah Oteh
#37. Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#39. People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out.
Mensah Oteh
#40. Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#41. A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#44. Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.
Lily Koppel
#45. Greatness of life depends not on what we do for ourselves, but on what we do for the betterment of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Second, the Church itself is going to have to become more authentic morally, for the greatness of the Gospel is now seen to have become quite trivial and inconsequential in its life. If the Gospel means so little to the Church, if it changes so little, why then should unbelievers believe it?
David F. Wells
#47. all men are different, and it is the difference between them that creates the greatness, the variety, and the creative inspirations of life, as well as the tensions of social intercourse.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#48. Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.
Amit Ray
#49. The idea that you have to pursue greatness ... it's up to you; it's your life.
Charlie Trotter
#50. The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.
Mary Burnett Talbert
#51. Walk and learn from the people that inspire you to do great things
Sunday Adelaja
#52. We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. 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.
John Piper
#53. You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.
Steve Maraboli
#56. Intimacy should not be given casually; there should be a price. And it shouldn't be negotiable.
Mensah Oteh
#57. Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. If I learned something it was the ride of life, it is fun and crazy.
Adel Abouhana
#60. Open wide your heart and accept all the experiences of life. Don't let any moment go half-lived. Live with greatness even in moments of sadness and pain. It is no shame to trip and fall as you walk the path of life. Just get up and continue on your way.
Ilchi Lee
#61. God Is Love But For This Love To Be Real To Us Depends Largely On Our Responses and Reactions to Him.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#62. Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known
how to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humble
surroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war
in
all the exalted elements of romance.
Joseph Conrad
#65. Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#66. Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
Phillips Brooks
#67. A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.
Idowu Koyenikan
#68. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
Joseph Conrad
#71. Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.
Frederick William Robertson
#72. May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. 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
#74. Smiling through confusion is courage.
Smiling through tears is strength.
Smiling through pain is power.
Smiling through tragedy is greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.
Mensah Oteh
#76. You are kind when you show your kindness to a person who is rude to you. It doesn't mean that you are weak, it shows your greatness and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#77. The Fate Gene A latent Ch05En gene destines someone for greatness. Maybe you'll be a rock star, or CEO of a Fortune 500. You might save somebody's life, or give birth to the greatest supporting actress of all time. Maybe you'll be a superhero. Those
William Dickstein
#78. Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Elbert Hubbard
#80. We all carry success gene within us, but its manifestation is our responsibility.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#81. Hmmmm ... What God can't handle doesn't exist. Don't limit Him with your thoughts and words.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#82. Where You Hail From Isn't As Important As Who You Are and What You Do ... Your Doings Define and Describe You.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#85. Even if you are a loser today, it doesn't mean that you cannot change yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#86. There is a seed of greatness in all of us but we need one another to bring forth these rivers of life out of our bellies.
Euginia Herlihy
#87. There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time
Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it.
(from The Mirror of Her Dreams)
Stephen R. Donaldson
#89. Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!
Monique Rockliffe
#90. George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
Gideon Haigh
#91. I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.
Darren Shan
#92. Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
Bo Bennett
#93. As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.
Sharon Salzberg
#94. Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#95. The level of happiness you experience through your interactions depends on the quality of your walk in love.
Mensah Oteh
#96. People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.
Ann Tatlock
#97. We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle.
#98. I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing.
Toni Sorenson
#100. Greatness lives on the edge of destruction
Will Smith
