Quotes About Greatness

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd / Tempering each other in the victor's mind / Alternately proclaim him good and great / And make the hero and the man complete.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.

He is great enough that is his own master.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

Hoy, como siempre, los que no temen a la muerte son infinitamente superiores a los más grandes exponentes de los poderes temporales

Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies; Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness; Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings; Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute; Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD!

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

I'll be relentless in my efforts to be great, but I'm realistic. I know I can't be perfect because I've seen it. But at the same time, nobody wants to fail, nobody wants to fail.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

When I'm finished doing music or whatever, I want people to remember me as just being great.

I hope people can remember me as the greatest. Who knows?

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

I want to be as big as I can be. I want to be one of the biggest artists. I want to be remembered like, 'He is crazy. He is phenomenal.' I just want to be one of the biggest.

'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

I loved working with Peter Weir. I think he's one of the greats and will be remembered as one of the greats.

When the list is made of the all-time best players, Totti will certainly be in there. I really believe he will be remembered as one of the greats.