Quotes About Greatness

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine.

You were born to be amazing.

There is no great love than the love of God.

You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.