Quotes About Greatness

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

He made the city [Athens], great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God's love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you can also transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!

The greatness of work is inside man.

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All great things are in your mind and your heart. If you do not find them there, you will not find them anywhere else.

How great is You ! , O' uprising of Soul.

The price of greatness is perform stately duties.

You will not achieve greatness until your spirit is flying into the space of striving and sacrifice for others.

Greatness alone in not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare.

He who gives charity anonymously is greater than moses.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Be not ashamed, my brothers, to stand before the proud and the powerful With your white robe of simpleness. Let your crown be of humility, your freedom the freedom of the soul. Build God's throne daily upon the ample bareness of your poverty And know that what is huge is not great and pride is not everlasting.

those in this world who have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life are the ones who raise society to greatness! Those who merely live according to rule do not advance society, they only carry it along.

Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all.

WE come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. 58

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.