Quotes About Greatness

Now I can't abide rudeness, even in so-called great artists. Rudeness and cruelty are the qualities I hate most (...). No, don't expect anything good from a rude man.

La desdicha es grande, pero el hombre es aún más grande que la desdicha (citando Tagore)

I look for a particular kind of sentence, perhaps more often the awkward than the beautiful. A broke-back sentence is interesting. Any sentence that begins with the phrase, It is not clear that... is clearly clumsy but preparing itself for greatness of a kind. A way of backing into a storyof getting past the readers hardwon armor.

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!

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

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

Don't be afraid to be amazing.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.

You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

Don't just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.