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Quotes About Greatness

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
~ James Russell Lowell
It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.
~ James Smithson
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
~ Jane Espenson
This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!
~ Eric Thomas
Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.
~ J. J. Watt
The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.
~ Lillian Hellman
The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives
~ Sunday Adelaja
Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself.
~ Molly Anne Marie
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness
~ Joel Brown
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.
~ Sarojini Naidu
Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness
~ Steve Rushin
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.
~ Raymond Arroyo
You will go one on one with the Great One!
~ Dwayne Johnson
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
~ John Buchan
You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.
~ R. Kelly
Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.
~ Jon Gordon
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
~ Frederick William Faber
How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone.
~ Les Brown
I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
~ Kobe Bryant
Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
~ Jonathan Frakes
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
~ David Oliver