Top 100 What Is Greatness Quotes
#1. What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
Ayn Rand
#2. What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#3. What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?
Thomas Higgons
#5. There is greatness in everyone.
What is your purpose on the earth?
Use your unique gifts and talent to influence mankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
Larry Fitzgerald
#7. The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong.
Malcolm Gladwell
#8. Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.
Wallace D. Wattles
#9. The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.
John Earl Shoaff
#10. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
Seth Godin
#11. Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.
Mae Jemison
#12. We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are ... God is.
Iyanla Vanzant
#13. It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
Vincent Van Gogh
#14. Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#15. What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.
Henry Steele Commager
#16. The course of our lives is determined by how we react
what we decide and what we do
at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
Daisaku Ikeda
#17. Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.
Jim Rohn
#18. Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#19. Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.
Radhanath Swami
#20. Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"
Mel Brooks
#21. I believe the greatness of a country is directly proportionate to what it pays attention to and the intrinsic value of that thing.
Daniel J. Muhlestein
#22. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.
Frank Herbert
#23. Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.
Udai Yadla
#24. Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?
Brad McKinniss
#25. Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height
#26. The greatness that would make us grave,
Is but an empty thing.
What more than mirth would mortals have?
The cheerful man's a king.
Isaac Bickerstaffe
#27. 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
#28. Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire.
Justin Young
#29. Doing what others have done is skill.
Dong what few have done is talent.
Doing what none have done is genius.
Going where others have gone is competence.
Going where few have gone is excellence.
Going where none have gone is transcendence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.
Tom Coburn
#31. Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
Tryon Edwards
#32. We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.
Anais Nin
#34. Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
Danica Patrick
#35. Your greatness is not what you have, but in what you give.
Alice Hocker
#36. Don't keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#37. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
Joseph Conrad
#38. Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path, you will reach your destination. Remember God's grace is sufficient.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#39. What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Euripides
#40. This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
Allen West
#41. The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is.
Phillip Brooks
#42. Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.
H. W. Janson
#43. You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.
Liza Palmer
#44. Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh
one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and
its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#46. Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.
Janelle Monae
#47. What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.
Donald Driver
#48. No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams
#49. What this game's really about is using each day as a platform to express your greatness.
Robin Sharma
#50. What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
Mother Teresa
#51. I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#52. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.
Jag Randhawa
#54. Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#55. The inability to scale is one of the stupidest arguments against a possibly great idea: greatness rarely scales, and that's part of what made it great in the first place.
Scott Berkun
#56. Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness
that means cynically and with innocence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. The Past
the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf
the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
Walt Whitman
#58. Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.
Robin Sharma
#59. Greatness is what remains when that talent and vision meet adversity - and persist in the face of it.
Lewis Howes
#60. Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!
Bayode Ojo
#61. The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness
by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.
Blaise Pascal
#62. Let him! He is great but in his greatness he is no happier than we in our conflict! Goodness would not make evil; and what else hath he made? but let him sit on his vast solitary throne, creating worlds to make eternity less burthensome to his immense existence.
George Gordon Byron
#63. In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.
Henry Ward Beecher
#64. Greatness is not measured by what you have, but by what you give.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.
Bauvard
#66. Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.
Percy Cerutty
#67. God want u to use what is buried in you to show your greatness
Ikechukwu Joseph
#68. If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.
Laurence Sterne
#69. 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
#70. the fear of God" is increased by an experience of God's grace and forgiveness. What it describes is a loving, joyful awe and wonder before the greatness of God.
Timothy J. Keller
#71. 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
#72. Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
Jim Rohn
#73. The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.
Arnold Friberg
#74. 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
#75. Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.
James C. Collins
#76. True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Larry Wall
#77. The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
Socrates
#78. Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Ross Paterson
#79. The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible, then maybe the rest of the world can do what's possible.
Jonathan Malley
#80. To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.
C.J. Mahaney
#81. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
James C. Collins
#83. The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside is greater than any negative force.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#84. The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what; the desire to...
Assegid Habtewold
#85. I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.
Nelson Algren
#86. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
Louisa May Alcott
#88. One of Nadal's strengths is that he's so humble, that he's surprised at what he has achieved, and that he has never bought into his greatness.
Jim Courier
#89. There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#90. Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.
Miguel Cotto
#91. The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short.
Aristotle.
#92. I am addicted to cereal. I am one of those people who just loves their cereal morning, noon and night. Kellogg's message is what I tell my kids every single day, which is: You've gotta start off your day right with a good, healthy breakfast to give yourself the potential for greatness.
Summer Sanders
#93. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw
#94. In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
David Oliver
#95. The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be
Todd Stocker
#96. I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness within us. So it is really important for everyone to figure out what God put us on Earth to do, and steer clear of the seven pervasive lies that often blindside people.
Farrah Gray
#97. If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?'
"The Torah tells us He has made man in His own image, after His likeness, and therefore He does but glance at you, my son, and sees Himself.
Noah Gordon
#98. The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.
Chris Christie
#99. Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
Barbara Sher
#100. We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle.
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