Quotes About Greatness

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

Life is all about choices. Play it safe and be good or take chances and be great.

In order for your life to be great, you must first learn to appreciate it!

One thing that we often forget ... No one has ever made himself great by showing someone else how small he is.

Discouragement is the enemy's favorite tool to use against you. He knows there is GREATNESS inside of you. Fight back. Get your life back!

Small minds cant comprehend big spirits. To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated, and misunderstood. Stay strong.

Finding greatness within yourself is what can set you apart from many...

Being the best is great, I'm number one. But being unique is greater, I'm the only one.

Being the best is great, you're number one; but being unique is greater, you're the only one.

Push yourself above the negativity of others, don't let them touch you. Don't listen to them, you're becoming who you were meant to be. Don't let your greatness be impacted by the words of others.

Parecia-me que a natureza, menos livre que os velhos poetas, devia servir-se quase que exclusivamente dos elementos comuns à família e não podia atribuir-lhe tal poder de inovação que fizesse, com materiais análogos aos que compunham um tolo e um bruto, um grande espírito sem a menor tara de tolice, uma santa sem a menor mácula de brutalidade.

All the greatest things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it

The true greatness of art is to find, grasp, and bring out that reality which we all live a great distance from; that reality which we run the risk of dying without having known, which is quite simply our own life.

Las ideas de los grandes hombres son el patrimonio común de la humanidad mientras que a ellos en realidad apenas les quedan ciertas extravagancias. El libro que describiera a un hombre con todas sus anomalías sería una obra similar a la estampa japonesa que nunca deja de incluir la imagen de una pequeña oruga captada por casualidad a una hora particular del día".

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Black men, you were once great; you will be great again. Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves?

You don't have to be an Adonis or a giant to accomplish feats of greatness. You have to have drive and commitment—as well as an honest sense of what is and isn't possible.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.