Quotes About Greatness

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.