Quotes About Greatness

Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

We imagine that we need to be loved and recognized as a totally unique being, as an entity separate from the common mortal by our greatness, and this also is a distorted translation of an essential need, the need to be recognized as nonseparate from the world, as a stream of love independent of an elevated ego.

Your sufferings must be borne, for you suffer in the cause of good. See how great we have become! ...Though your groans fill the air, isn't it sweeter to live in our own hands than in the hands of the gods?

I think," I say after a while, waiting for the right words to come, "that if a man could be said to be loved by his son, then I think that man could be considered great." For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along.

For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along. "Ah

I think," I say after a while, waiting for the right words to come, "that if a man could be said to be loved by his son, then I think that man could be considered great.

Word of his great strength, intelligence, and perseverance had spread even this far, and yet his youth was such that my father knew he must perform many great labors before he assumed his rightful place. His

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I could convince future storytellers, Father, that what guided you was the desire for beauty and greatness, a thirst for the absolute. It doesn't really matter where it leads us; we all decide what we want to keep in our bag, rags or riches. The truth is not always pretty or merciful. •

If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history

He is never fired with admiration, since there is nothing great in his eyes. He cannot live in complaisance with others, except it be a friend; complaisance is the characteristic of a slave . . . .

To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and to rule one's self.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully."88 "Minds are conquered not by arms but by greatness of soul."89

Nor may we define progress in terms of happiness, for idiots are happier than geniuses, and those whom we most respect seek not happiness but greatness.

A man's shortcomings," said Goethe, "are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.