Quotes About Greatness

Elpino. But since the greatness of God lieth not at all in corporeal size (not to mention that our world doth add nothing to him) so also we should not conceive the greatness of his image to consist in the greater or lesser extent of the size thereof.

N-am încotro: orice-aÈ™ face, mie-mi plac întotdeauna extremele. În materie de fiinÈ›e, nu agreez decât animalele È™i plantele des?vârÈ™ite, decât pe aceia care-È™i fac cinstit treaba, f?r? s? priceap? altceva, f?r? s? se vânture de ici-colo, p?l?vr?gind È™i urm?rindu-È™i ambiÈ›iile, sau geniul adev?rat, sufletul m?reÈ›, eroul uriaÈ™ È™i solitar ca un munte de noapte.

Se o invejado é na verdade superior ao invejoso, ninguém pode nada contra ele: o grande tem de descer até ao pequeno para ser contagiado.

?i eu sunt om, ?i eu vreau s? fiu mare ?i fericit.

Por ahora, sólo nuestras palabras son propias de titantes, pero nuestras obras son de hormigas y topos. Incluso las termitas nos pueden dar lecciones de grandeza. El hombre moderno, a pesar de su jactancia, piensa como Gulliver y no se da cuenta que vive al nivel de Liliput.

First, you need to realize that you are great, then live up to that without caring about anything else.

The great are ordinary people who act in a great way.

Don't be humble . . . you're not that great.

Don't be humble. Your not that great.

Don't be so humble, you are not that great.

Dont be so humble you're not that great

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated by this colossal display of obstinacy, and, at least for the moment, many are. But they just wait in silence and let their resentments fester. The Party knows how to suppress, but it no longer has the power to lead. It has forgotten what once made it great.

When I get mad, I stop being mad and be awesome instead.

Le persone d'eccezionale valore sono simili alle grandi aquile solitarie che volano molto in alto nell'azzurro, al disopra della terra e della sua superficiale meschinità.

Buck possedeva una qualità necessaria alla grandezza, la fantasia.

Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.

What great minds lie in the dust," said Guyal in a low voice. "What gorgeous souls have vanished into the buried ages; what marvellous creatures are lost past the remotest memory … Nevermore will there be the like; now in the last fleeting moments, humanity festers rich as rotten fruit. Rather than master and overpower our world, our highest aim is to cheat it through sorcery.

The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens.

The fates of people and of states, of entire civilizations, can depend on whether an extraordinary person can bring forth the proper strength of soul and action. Normal minds and spirits, no matter how numerous, cannot replace such a person.

King, Gandhi, and Kepler become great because they make choices full of moral courage.

People and places know greatness for a while, then decline.

The curious thing about this little forerunner of greatness is that although we are sure that he existed and are intellectually convinced that he had to have certain characteristics, no man has ever seen a shred of physical evidence that he really did exist.

Solitude is for the strong, or for those who are ready to become strong. When a man is becoming great, he becomes solitary. He goes in solitude to seek, and that which he seeks, he finds, for there is a Way to all knowledge, all wisdom, all truth, all power. And the Way is for ever open, but it lies through soundless solitudes and the unexplored silences of man's being.