Quotes About Greatness

Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Advantageous changes to society happen only through the determined work of unreasonable men. Great things happen only when enough

The great master is within you.

If you remember that there is no single act of greatness, just a series of small acts done with great passion or great love p125

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Messi has all the conditions to be the best.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

He was a man who combined familial greatness with personal mediocrity.

Socrates: So was I. Bertha: Are you saying you're as great as him, then? Socrates: No, no, on the contrary, I'm assuming just the opposite!

When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. Some spend the rest of their lives looking for ways to recapture that spirit.