Quotes About Greatness

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.

Pursue great things.You are destiny for greatness.

Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

Let him who is about to accuse God consider the greatness of the God accused.

And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire.

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.

However heart-stopping his smile and however honest his eyes, however much I think of him as a boy fired to greatness by his own ambition, I cannot trust him.

Slowly, like a breeze going through treetops, they doff their hats and bow, and I realize that they are acknowledging me as queen, queen in the place of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, the greatest woman in the realm, and nothing in my life will ever be the same again. I

I am glad that I did not choose a martyr's death like Jane, and I am glad that I did not break my heart like Katherine. I am glad that I loved Thomas and that I know that I love him still. I am glad that Elizabeth did not destroy me, and that I defied her and never regretted it, and that my little life, as a little person, has been a life of greatness to me.

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?