Quotes About Greatness

Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune.

My formula for greatness is Amor fati: . . . not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.

The greatness of a poet is not to be measured by the scale but by the intensity and the perfection of his works. Also by his vivacity. Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry.

If you weren't such a great man, you'd be a terrible bore.

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.

Those who follow that part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow that part which is little are little men. To the mind belongs the office of thinking. By thinking, it gets the right view of things; by neglecting to think, it fails to do this. Let a man first stand fast in the supremacy of the nobler part of his constitution, and the inferior part will not be able to take it from him. It is simply this which makes the great man.

I want now to fulfill the vow which I made to myself five years ago when I was a blind cripple in the military hospital: to know neither rest nor peace until the November criminals had been overthrown, until on the ruins of the wretched Germany of today there should have arisen once more a Germany of power and greatness, of freedom and splendor.

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

We enjoy hearing about God's greatness and his love for us, but we also need to think about his commandments—even if they are uncomfortable at first,

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.*

The man of worth is really great without being proud; the mean man is proud without being really great.

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree--the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.

greatness polarizes. It attracts rabid fans on one side and just-as-rabid anti-fans on the other.

I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.

Qui Servum Magnum - He Who Serves Greatest.

Sí, tenemos que tomar decisiones difíciles, hacer las cosas bien y adaptarnos a un mundo siempre cambiante, como lo hacen las mejores compañías; pero también tenemos que encontrar paz y satisfacción al darnos cuenta de la grandeza a la cual somos llamados como seres humanos.

The measure of their personal greatness is less what they found at journey's end and more the depth of human character that carried them along the way: their imagination, will, perseverance, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to bear the risk of failure.

To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!

If the Holy Spirit takes over your family, your business or your health, it doesn't matter what troubles you've been experiencing or what's been going wrong, you will begin to go from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from faith to faith, from success to success and from greatness to greatness. When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.

Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God,Our God.

Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now. Those who have inherited rich blood can use that richness in building greatness in themselves, but those who have not the privilege of such inheritance need not be discouraged. They can create their own rich blood and make it as rich as they like.

We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

Knowing the seriousness of our disease will make us all the more amazed at the greatness of our Physician.