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Quotes About Greatness

I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.
~ Aeriel Miranda
Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.
~ Alyson Noel
There's still time for greatness
~ Andrew Craig
Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.
~ Andrew Craig
You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.
~ Caitlin Moran
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
~ George Sarton
It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.
~ Robert Osborne
Colin Kaepernick has the tools to be one of the greatest of all time
~ Ron Jaworski
The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time.
~ Serena Williams
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.
~ Lykke Li
I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.
~ Mariah Carey
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.
~ Mark Twain
All great men are dead, and I'm not feeling too well myself
~ Mark Twain
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
~ Mark Twain
Držite se podalje od ljudi koji žele omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Sitne duše to rade svo vreme, a samo zaista veliki ljudi ulivaju vam ose?aj da i vi možete postati veliki
~ Mark Twain
Klonite se ljudi koji ?e pokušati omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Mali ljudi ?ine takve stvari, dok veliki ljudi mogu u?uniti da se osetite da i vi možate postati veliki
~ Mark Twain
She was reserved, and kept things to herself, as the truly great always do.
~ Mark Twain
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
~ Mark Twain
Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.
~ Mark Twain
She was troubled, and said that these honors were not meet for one of her lowly birth and station, and by their kind grace she would remain simple Joan of Arc, nothing more -- and so be called. Nothing more! As if there could be anything more, anything higher, anything greater. My Lady Du Lis -- why, it was tinsel, petty, perishable. But, JOAN OF ARC! The mere sound of it sets one's pulses leaping.
~ Mark Twain