Quotes About Greatness

Your smile is the twinkle of happiness. Your heart is the source of kindness. Your presence is the source of joyfulness. Your thoughts are symbols of greatness.

Great thought, great achievement, and great love have this in common: all involve great risk.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

I can become great by developing an attitude of greatness.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Produce great men, the rest follows.