Quotes About Greatness

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great".

Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured by those things that truly distinguish a civilization, our living standards are hardly high at all. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people — a black people — who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.

You are good, you are great, you are amazing.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

What we love will either take us to greatness or to ruin

When legends die the dreams end. When the dreams end there is no more greatness.

Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of the dying, sick and poor. It is about normal people with careers, families, and responsibilities, asking 'How can what I already do and what I already am make a difference in lives half a world away?

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

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.

no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are

The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest.

Your intricate love reminds me how great I want to be.

Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.