Quotes About Greatness

In the quiet of this day, may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods… But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall

Truly great leaders don't have to chase love. It finds them.

I saw sadness when I looked at what was left of them. The demigods who had once controlled the heavens had been brought low, humbled to the point of death. I always imagined I heart their crumbled masterpieces singing an endless mourning dirge. I turned, looking at the wild grass shivering across the plateau. "I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness." "Some things last." I faced him. "Really? And just what would that be?" "The things that matter.

Choice is powerful and can lead to great things if not held in the tight fists of a few.

No one is too great to fall.

But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall.

Los líderes verdaderamente grandes no tienen que perseguir el amor. El amor los encuentra.

Even the Pyramids were made to serve his consummate art and ambition! Although

It is not to be supposed that Frederick felt much sympathy with the free young Republic established in America. And if he sent a sword of honor to Washington in 1783, it was because he recognized the greatness of the man; and perhaps, too, because he felt a malicious pleasure in the humiliation of George III.! The

There are always men who take their own measure against greatness, and hate it not for what it is, but for what they are. They can envy even the dead. So much Alexander saw. He did not understand, since it was not in him, the power such men have to rouse in others the sleeping envy they once had a decent shame of; to turn respect for excellence into hate. Nor did Kallisthenes understand it in himself. Vanity begets it, vanity covers it up.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

A candle cannot boast standing next to the sun.

As eagles fly with eagles, the great walk with the great.

Be too great, like the Sun, to retaliate when lesser men throw stones at you.

He who is able to lift heavy weights is strong; he who is able to carry heavy burdens is great.

Negative thoughts are an obstacle to happiness; positive thoughts are a bridge to greatness.

Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.