Quotes About Greatness

Beneath all the chatter and the liturgy runs a fierce nostalgia for the literary myths of the past, for the gigantic figures of Dickens and Joyce, Hemingway and Faulkner. A writer can't even aim at that kind of aura today. But it's that yearning for imagined greatness that drives the whole literary enterprise. Plus the publishers' desperation to manufacture a bestseller to pay the bills. The idea of greatness is a marketing tool. See Franzen.

Greatness makes you a legend; being the best makes you an icon. If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.

Physical dominance can make you great. Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable.

Being relentless means never being satisfied. It means creating new goals every time you reach your personal best. If you're good, it means you don't stop until you're great. If you're great, it means you fight until you're unstoppable. It means becoming a Cleaner.

Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they're waiting for you to just let go.

If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.

That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It

Aprende de los grandes, no de la competencia

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

When exactly was the 'again' in the president's slogan 'Make America great again'? Hint: It is the same 'again' that we find in 'Never again.

when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster." What we need, he thinks, are "riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.

Why did the man who would become revered for generations as the Great Emancipator hesitate to do his "emancipating," and if it did take him so long, what is so "great" about that?

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

Frank Ocean, he's the G.O.A.T.

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

How can I ever dog Derek Jeter? It's impossible. There is nothing to knock. He's a great defensive player. He's a great offensive player.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

Oh, I've been ridiculously lucky to work for, I'd say, five of the greatest directors of all time... and a lot of other great people, too.

I bow to Jesus in gratitude, and I say, 'Oh Lord, you are great.' It touches me, and it lifts me up because I am hungry for more.

When I get to a ripe old age then talk of me as a great cricketer.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.