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Quotes About Greatness

I believe in highlighting the 'greatness' that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
The writing was vastly superior to almost anything that was on the air. It's one of the great shows. It was an important show... 'St. Elsewhere' was one of the great shows in the history of television.
~ Norman Lloyd
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
~ Khalil Gibran
If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
~ D. B. Sweeney
It's going to take every American playing on the same team - and everyone trying to be the best version of themselves - to make America great.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
~ Sheryl Crow
Katrs var k??t par labu uzvar?t?ju. Par cilv?ka dižumu liecina tas, k? vi?š prot pie?emt zaud?jumu.
~ Jeffrey Archer
La Rochefoucauld: Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fire.
~ Jeffrey Archer
The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Greatness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
East of Ordinary There exists the landscape where you take yourself by the hand. Where you walk forward trembling with tears running down your face, West of Doubt where you fear your greatness and embrace it anyway. We join hands and listen for the whispers of how we each make a difference. North of Hello we gather the courage for the doing. South of Regret we loosen our jaws, lean our shoulders away from our ears, let our eyes turn upwards. It need not be hard, we have each other.
~ Unknown
Right action demands that you cultivate a mindful environment of integrity by nurturing greatness in all kids involved in sports. You must learn how to guard the spirit and passion of those you parent, helping your kids to discover the goodness within themselves and empowering them with the notion that they are, indeed, great warriors who are capable of accomplishing their dreams.
~ Unknown
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.
~ Jess Walter
Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.
~ Jewel
It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.
~ John Chadwick
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
~ John Dryden
I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.
~ Judd Apatow
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.
~ Mark Helprin
all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
~ May Sarton
The greatness of work is inside man.
~ Pope John Paul II
Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.
~ Robin Sharma
Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.
~ Unknown
Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.
~ Troy Polamalu