Quotes About Greatness

It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth.

it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind. The technically accomplished buggers are two a penny in any period. Especially in this great age of universal education. He

True greatness is not about comparisons with others. Rather, it's about being the best possible version of myself each and every day!

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

I can do small things in a great way.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Failure is the true test of greatness

Failure is the test of greatness.