Quotes About Greatness

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

All great virtues become great men.

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Great actions speak great minds.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.