logo

Quotes About Greatness

I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset.
~ Douglas Conant
I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.
~ Rod Lurie
Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.
~ Tim Robbins
My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.
~ Ram Nath Kovind
I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.
~ Henry Mancini
The greatest things often lie concealed in the most insignificant, as in a mustard seed, or in the tiny trickle which is the beginning of a mighty river.
~ Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
We are agents of omnipotence. This means that unlimited power is at our fingertips. It also means that there are no great men working in God's Kingdom. Rather, there is a great God at work in human beings who have childlike faith.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
La Grandeza existe; como mucho, coexiste. Su subtexto es que se joda el contexto.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Thy gentleness hath made me great" (2 Samuel 22:36, Authorized Version). Where in the whole Bible do we have a more magnificent paradox than that which associates greatness with gentleness?
~ Rev William Still
Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness.
~ Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
Sift through my insanity and revel in my greatness
~ Richard A. Stone
The method and conceptuality of the theology of Revelation are relatively different from the rest of the New Testament, but once they are appreciated in their own right, Revelation can be seen to be not only one of the finest literary works in the New Testament, but also one of the greatest theological achievements of early Christianity. Moreover, the literary and theological greatness are not separable.
~ Richard Bauckham
And there'd be no point: Why would he give his life over to this, if it were not for the notion that he could do something great?
~ Richard Ben Cramer
And, together, we can make America great, and strong again.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.
~ Richard Llewellyn
Governments encourage this pacification by various distractions, what used to be called "bread and circuses." They know it will keep us small, content, and uninterested in those "weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and good faith" (Matthew 23:23) that have attracted all great souls. A
~ Richard Rohr
My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
~ Rick Riordan
Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.
~ Rick Riordan
Very good, Jason Grace, Notus said. You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy.
~ Rick Riordan
You're sure?' I asked. 'I mean, the Lord of the Sword is great. But you could also be, I don't know, the Slammer of the Hammer'.
~ Rick Riordan
Your journey has shaped you, made you both kind and great.
~ Rick Riordan
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And yet what precisely is "greatness"? […] I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is though the land knows of its own beuty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. In
~ Kazuo Ishiguro