Quotes About Greatness

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

Time never stops for the great ones.

The time has come for us to understand that the Eternal Feminine is the greatest power in this Universe.

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind.

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

The spirit of man is great how puny are his deeds

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People

The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.

It was a very great miracle you revealed," he whispered. "Let him ponder it until he has made its greatness small enough for his mind.

As the economy shifts, large (and small) organizations are discovering that this brainwashing thing was a huge error. You can't snooze your way to greatness. You can't optimize your way to surprising growth. You can't organize your way into blamelessness.

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.

Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

But I'm also addicted to books. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book.

Paul believed American greatness and the ghosts of that greatness surrounded him. But who could publicly express such a belief and not be ridiculed as a patriotic fool? Paul believed in his fellow Americans, in their extraordinary decency, in their awesome ability to transcend religion, race, and class, but what leftist could state such things and ever hope to get laid by any other lefty?

In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.