Quotes About Greatness

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

Believe that you have a destiny to be great.

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

America is to great to dream small dreams.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

Those who seek to aspire are those who achieve Greatness.

The fulfillment of your dreams lies within you and you alone.When you understand and accept this then nothing, or no one can deny you greatness.