Quotes About Greatness

At the time, I didn't think it was a tragedy, Zack's fall, but later I wondered if the tragedies in life are only about when you could have been great but weren't.

A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The chance for greatness, for progress and for change dies the moment we try to be like someone else.

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is as well to mark their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and auscultation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

La grandeza del hombre sólo se puede medir por su capacidad de desastre El éxito sabe a miel empalagosa: el fracaso a limón con sal.

we discovered that some great minds have the same passions, and now look where we are

Human greatness has always had sadness for a companion.

It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness.

You must not love them," said Quest gently. "It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness. But the gods were monsters. Do not even love their memory.

You must not love them. It is easy to love power because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness. But the gods were monsters. Do not even love their memory. The gods are dead.

Many evidences and arguments suggest God's existence, yet the plain truth is that God cannot be proved by intellectual arguments alone. If the human mind could fully prove God, He would be no greater than the mind that proves Him!

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person—the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments—is the true measure of lasting greatness.

What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes pains to create, this monotony which is slowly taking over the world, this monotony is the sign of our greatness. It bears the mark of a certain will-power, the will to utility; it is the expression of utility, a law that governs all our modern activity: the Law of Utility.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.