Quotes About Greatness

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.

Fox News Latino has a mission to point out the positives of the Latino population, operating within the framework of making America great.

Great broadcasting requires all of us, those who are in positions of power and especially those who are in positions to employ people, to remember you need to look towards the greatest conceivable palate to create greatness.

I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.

A lot of people wish they could be in the house with the greatest of anything. I just so happened to live across the hall from absolutely, positively the greatest women's basketball player ever.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.

I feel like I'm a legend continuing to be a legend!

I have said many times that I am convinced that Benzema is a great striker, and I think he has demonstrated that.

I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great ,and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves.

All truly great shooters - Dale Ellis, Larry Bird, Craig Hodges, Chris Mullin - we always believed that we were the best shooters in the world.

You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

We aren't made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as humans, we are made to serve each other.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.

I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.