Quotes About Greatness

To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships, which depends on the quality of the conversations. Everything happens through conversations!

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

She (Empress Marie Feodorovna) instinctively understood that to the Russian people the appearance of greatness was as important as greatness itself.

Colin knew the ton well. He knew how his peers acted. The aristocracy was capable of individual greatness, but collectively they tended to sink to the lowest common denominator.

I have so much respect for the country, I don't like blanket indictments. There's a lot of really great things about this country.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

Athletes can not look the same and be great in their individual sport. The example I like to use is Gabby Douglas. She could not flip in the air if she was built like me, but then Gabby Douglas couldn't throw the shot put. I was built like this because I was made to throw the shot put.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who I thought were great enough that they really made a difference. And so I would never want to be disappointed by them, and I want to make sure I never disappoint audience.

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives.

There's an inner desire, something inside of me, that's always wanted to be great and leave a mark.

I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.

I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it's wonderful, and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it - all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

I'm not a Maradona, and it's not my intention to become one.

I believe that one should not interrupt the greatness of a woman who has everything going for herself until one is ready to add value to her life.

LeBron James is going to be somebody that I look back on and think, yeah I got to not only watch one of the all-time great players in the history of the sport, but I also had the opportunity to interview him at some of the most critical moments of his career.