Quotes About Greatness

Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!

You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

It's pathetic—how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great." Trudy

But what is great can only begin great.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

The great collapses, the small remains forever.

The great begins great, sustains itself only through the free recurrence of greatness, and if it is great, also comes to an end in greatness. ... Only the everyday understanding and small man imagine the great must ensure forever, a duration he then goes on to equate with the eternal.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service... You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Everybody can be great; you only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted. ... [God] expresses [His] tough mindedness in [His] justice and wrath and [His] tenderheartedness in [His] love and grace. ... On the one hand, God is a God of justice who punished Israel for her wayward deeds, and on the other hand, [He] is a forgiving father whose heart was filled with unutterable joy when the prodigal son returned home.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michealangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness—justice.

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for the least of these.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Nada es pequeño para las grandes mentes

It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is worth having, and conducive to happiness. Not fame, but that which deserves to be famous, is what a man should hold in esteem.