Quotes About Greatness

One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.

You choose to be yourself, your best self. You can be descended from gods and monsters. You can take the light they left you and be a lamp shining out all their light made new. You can battle the darkness. You can choose always to fight and hope. That is what it means to have a great heart. Don't be afraid of being yourself.

I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in.

I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.

Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it was that the woman who slept in his bed would be judged unworthy of his company. Her husband's fans recoiled from the notion that she might have made a significant contribution towards his achievement of greatness. The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained.

True obedience requires greatness and inward freedom of soul.

Reason is the enemy of all greatness: reason is the enemy of nature: nature is great, reason is small. I mean that it will be more or less difficult for a man to be great the more he is governed by reason, that few can be great (and in art and poetry perhaps no one) unless they are governed by illusions.

God does not have to prove Himself to anyone, but He still does anyway. Through Creation, God has proven over and over again, that He is so great.

God is a great God. Even when there are technological advances, nothing can ever replace Him nor His works. His greatness is beyond what a human mind can comprehend.

God is great! He is the source of abundant love, peace and power.

God is great! Nothing and no one can take that greatness away from Him.

God is great, because He created and predestined you for greatness.

God is too great, even technology cannot replace His greatness.

God never goes on vacation. He never changes His decisions or location. He is still the same God who is great, regardless of human opinion.

God remains great, even when others refuse to recognize, know or seek after Him. He never stops loving, caring and protecting humanity.

The greatness of God alone, is greater than the greatness of many great men combined.

The love of God is ever shining, everlasting and never failing. He is a great God after all.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Aprenderás el desprecio ante la pequeñez de los poderosos, conocerás el respeto ante la grandeza de los pequeños.