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Quotes About Greatness

Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
~ Mia Hamm
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
~ Mary Kay Ash
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
~ William Halsey
People talk about me because I am a great man
~ Chris Oyakhilome
Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.
~ Jackie Gleason
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
~ John Stuart Mill
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
~ Thomas Fuller
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
~ Edmund Burke
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
~ Fernando Flores
Great countries are those that produce great people.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
He was a great man. And he was also me.
~ Jeff Goldblum
Great men grow tired of contentedness.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
~ Jim Rohn
They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.
~ Charley Johnson
The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.
~ James C. Collins
Only the great Souls can and know how to love.
~ Samael Aun Weor
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
~ Voltaire
We must be young to do great things.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
~ Rick Warren
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
~ Nat Turner
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Great men have great dogs.
~ Otto von Bismarck
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.
~ Christopher Nolan