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Quotes About Greatness

God wants us to bring our everyday needs to Him, even if they appear trivial. He doesn't demand that we approach Him only when we have raised ourselves to some kind of spiritual elevation above the everyday things of life. He comes to meet us where we are, and therein lies His greatness. When we come to Him with our "little things," we do Him great honor.
~ Unknown
When you have a great relationship, don't try to improve it. Try to hold on to what you have. You need to nurture each and every great moment as well as memories of those moments. Take one step at a time with joy and happiness and then you'll have no limit to greatness.
~ Unknown
Don't wait for the world to recognize your greatness, live it and let the world catch up to you.
~ Unknown
Little persons try to be perfect while great ones do not know they are great.
~ Unknown
We all want to be great, but we don't want people to know we want to be great.
~ Unknown
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
~ Vince Lombardi
Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
~ Vince Lombardi
These two aspects of divine holiness mean that there is no one like God. He is altogether different and superior. In connection to his holiness, the Bible declares that God is unique, and that no one approaches his greatness: "There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God" (1 Samuel 2:2);
~ Unknown
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Es bueno amar tanto como se pueda, porque ahí radica la verdadera fuerza. Y el que mucho ama realiza grandes cosas y se siente capaz, y lo que hace por amor está bien hecho
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
~ Voltaire
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
~ Voltaire
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
~ Voltaire
Great is truth, and all powerful.
~ Unknown
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
~ W. Clement Stone
I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.
~ Muhammad Ali
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
~ George W. Bush
Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.
~ Neal Shusterman
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
~ Phillips Brooks
Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind's grandiose sense of greatness.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
A great man is always willing to be little.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.
~ Marshall Sylver
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
~ Norm MacDonald