Quotes About Greatness

Instead of being great, the Lord wanted to be small in order to be food for us.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.

In the impeachment crisis of 1868, none of the country's leaders was great, a few were good, all were angry, and far too many were despicable. Still, we survived.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.

All three philistines took their perfect coffee and had it sacrificed on the altar of cream and sugar. I didn't say anything but inside I was dying as I ordered the café abominations and smiling I handed them out as the intelligent kitchen delivered them up. I didn't even make one for myself planning to drink one after they left so the taint of their heresy had no chance of affecting my pure caffeinated potion of greatness.

He grinned back at her as she closed the door. Men were easy. Even those destined for greatness. Give them beer and sex, and they were happy.

It's not that I'm so smart," Albert Einstein once said. "It's just that I stay with problems longer." Einstein's simple statement is a clarion call for all who seek greatness, for themselves or their children. In the end, persistence is the difference between mediocrity and enormous success.

You can't focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you're surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it.

Natural order is pregnant with potentially great answers. Chaos is only fertile when it produces answers to achieving natural order

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

The greatness of God!

Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.

Scars can mark you for greatness.

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

The great mentor is master builder of great students.

We all have potential for greatness in ourselves. The only thing we need to do is to find it.

The man who said no to sin, cheat, deceit, manipulation, wickedness, hatred, jealousy and pride, has said yes to greatness

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that.

You can't be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness.

Greatness is inspiring others to be their best.

instead of being obsessed with watching greatness i'd rather do greatness

I am the best person in the universe.