Quotes About Greatness

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity. Oh, there were moments of greatness, of bright deeds, but how long did the light of such glory last? From one breath to the next, aye, and no more than that.

Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness?

History and legend conspire to convince us that there are men who rise above the common lot of humankind, who are set apart from the rest of us by birth or achievement or the favor of the gods; but no man, regardless of his pretensions to greatness, is immune from death, and the death of the so-called great is often more squalid and terrifying than the deaths of their most humble subjects.

One of the greatest qualities which have made the English a great people is their eminently sane, reasonable, fairminded inability to conceive that any viewpoint save their own can possibly have the slightest merit.

But where is the root of suffering? He begins talking about the happiness of suffering, about the beauty of suffering. Suffering is not dirty, suffering is not pitiable. No, suffering is great because suffering makes people great...It is impossible to convince him that suffering is something unworthy.

As James MacDonald wrote, "To really be gripped by your identity in God's greatness you must wade out of the shallow waters of self-absorption into the deep waters of praising him at all times for all things.

When the governor ordered him to travel around the district courts to administer justice and he arrived at Gades, he noticed the statue of Alexander the Great at the temple of Hercules and groaned as though disgusted with his own idleness—he had done nothing worth remembering at an age when Alexander had already conquered the world. He

We feed on genius. . . . Great men exist that there may be greater men.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them,

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

We have a lot of really great companies in Canada, and I think there's always been this fear that 'great' in Canada doesn't mean great on a world stage. We need more self-confidence. We are building incredibly good businesses with incredibly good people, being loyal, dedicating themselves to solving important problems.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

Just to be, overall, I want to be one of the greats: overall, someone that leaves a good mark, someone everybody always remember.

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?

I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome!

God is a supreme-being.God is all powerful.God is the creator of all things.God is great.God is mighty.

To enjoy the greatness and magnificence of life, lose yourself in the ocean of love.

We all try to be are greatest, but what if are greatest hasn't affected others with greatness…

Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes.