Quotes About Greatness

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

I'm nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

I just want to be remembered as a great actor.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.