Quotes About Greatness

It also means there are no limitations on what you can earn, because you can always find more people to serve. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, 'Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.' Another way to say that might be, 'Everybody can be successful because anybody can give.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Albert Einstein knew he was no greater than you or I. It is our ignorance that causes us to believe that he was greater, that he had been endowed with a special power.

He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal greatness.

When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and Capablanca, Fischer responded, Well, I don't like to put things like that in print, it sounds so egotistical. But to answer your question, Yes."- Ginzburg interview, Harper's Magazine 1962

The years pass, and a lifetime seems to go by in an instant. I'm told that the young boy is a grandfather now. He has lived a life that should be an example for everyone who achieves greatness of how to be humble and unselfish and how to treat others. It was a joy to be able to coach him for that season and the next year as well, to get to know him as a person as well as player, and it is a great honor to be asked to reminisce about him now.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great man cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

He was too big to be little, too good to be mean.

All greatness in performance rests upon a basis of details. A knowledge of what is general to a subject may suffice for the merely learned man, but a thorough knowledge of details is necessary to form the adept.

Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the inspiration of everything great.

It requires a great genius to flatter successfully a great personage. The common arts of adulation are thrown away upon the exalted. They are so accustomed to these that they take little notice.

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

Awesome is the word one uses for Eleanor Roosevelt, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and pitching a no-hit no-run ballgame. Not available for the crappy cheese quesadilla you had this afternoon, nor for anybody who Dances with the Stars. With or without a wooden leg.)

Denying Ahab greatness is an aesthetic blunder: He is akin to Achilles, Odysseus, and King David in one register, and to Don Quixote, Hamlet, and the High Romantic Prometheus of Goethe and Shelley in another. Call the first mode a transcendent heroism and the second the persistence of vision. Both ways are antithetical to nature and protest against our mortality. The epic hero will never submit or yield.

I regard Clarissa and In Search of Lost Time as the two most eminent of all novels, surpassing even Tolstoy and Dickens.

I think that the self, in its quest to be free and solitary, ultimately reads with one aim only: to confront greatness. That confrontation scarcely masks the desire to join greatness, which is the basis of the aesthetic experience once called the Sublime: the quest for a transcendence of limits.

Like my hairstyle? she asked. It's great. How great? Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world.

Yes, I know better; God created man so that he might admire the splendour of the world. Every author, be he never so great, wants his work to be praised.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.