Quotes About Greatness

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

The only greatness is unselfish Love.

This imperial woman, so diverse and rich in her genius, might have chosen her own greatness had she been able to single one gift above another, but she could not make her own choice of what she loved best to do, and so she did something of each and in all she excelled. As for those affairs of state which had absorbed her until

Even our enemies call him 'great soul,' and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

Every human being has the potential for greatness.

I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?

I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

Yet egotism can also be useful to ambitious creatures, driving their single-minded pursuit of success. Madness seems essential in order to be "great.

There was a time, in living memory, when this nation bestrode the planet like a titan.