Quotes About Greatness

He is great enough that is his own master.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.

I want to fight legends before I retire.

I've played with and against great players. I've been with Viv Richards, Richie Richardson and played against Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jaque Kallis and Virat Kohli is up there with the very best.

Bill Russell is one of the greatest players of all time.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.

I admire Sachin Tendulkar for being one of the best role models for young cricketers, and no one in Pakistan even doubts his greatness, as his records speak for himself.

Of course, people will be partial, but I put myself among the best in history.

People that don't know Owen Hart or just know his passing... what a great guy above anything - a family man, father, husband - but he had more integrity in his pinky than most people had in their entire body.

In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we are not careful we may accept the inevitability of these images. It seems that great men offer us a portion of reality and, because of their greatness, we take it for the whole.

To be great is to keep sweetness.

By exploring how fidelity to God requires an acknowledgement of the provisional nature of our beliefs, 'A/theism' was designed to offer us a greater appreciation of God's greatness, a renewed openness to learning from other people's understanding of God and a deeper commitment to a faith that is enhanced, rather than enslaved, by a particular Christian tradition.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe? A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

Every gift, though small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.

Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.

For the next twenty years she would tour the world in search of artistic recognition, a futile quest, 'because she mistook her indisputable uniqueness for greatness

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 greatness is.