Quotes About Greatness

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be. Karma

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

And as he spoke, in the youth and noonday of the West, a nation, sleeping in the shadows of the darkened half of earth, on the far side of the Pacific, waited in spirit for the words that would be borne on the dawn that was travelling towards them, to reveal to them the secret of their own greatness and strength.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Many great scientists and philosophers, among them René Descartes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Thorstein Veblen, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein, have had similarly strange and solitary personalities.

pues lo que se puso en cuestión fue precisamente la certeza del destino de grandeza y de la excepcionalidad del país que se había consolidado durante los procesos de constitución del Estado moderno en 1880. En el plano cultural, por el contrario, se registraron respuestas creativas a esos mismos sucesos que signaron la época.

Greatness inspires greatness. Creativity inspires creativity. When you align yourself with people who inspire you and help draw out the best in you, you find your best self.

Some think that emulating those we admire makes us more effective and guarantees the result they exhibit. The goal is not to duplicate someone else's greatness or purpose, destiny or creativity.

There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

One must gradually learn the truth about the boundaries between what is great and what is small.