Quotes About Greatness

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Greatness is when you inspire others, motivate others and encourage others to live in harmony".

Stop calling it a dream, its time to call it a plan, never relent kick-starting that plan, it will surely yield greatness

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.