Quotes About Greatness

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

And maybe there is greatness waiting for you—if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.

Don't you want to find out who else you are—other than a receptionist? She frowned. There is honor in all works. And maybe there is greatness waiting for you—if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.

now this warm thought of greatness is a big chill in the wind—for

And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.

There are two types of men: the great and the small.

I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and I'd think, 'I want to be a legend like that.'

Few fighters reach Mike Tyson's level, of course.

I never said I was a Tyson, Bowe or Ali. I said I'm Shannon Briggs, the latest, not the 'greatest.'

My ultimate goal was always that I want to be known as one of the greatest of all time. The first step was obviously to be UFC champion.

I believe in the player that I am. And ultimately I believe I was made to play this game, that God created me to be great at this thing.

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

When I think of greatness, I think of guys like Earl Campbell and Gale Sayers and Walter Payton, and these individuals who, it's unanimous they're going to make a difference - when they're coming out of college, there's no doubt.

I don't think Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 majors is unbeatable at all.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.