Quotes About Greatness

We have a system of jurisprudence. You are innocent until proven guilty. You have a right to counsel. And you have a right to hospitalization if you are ill. That is our system. And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.

Para mi quiero, antes que un rico, un Pobre que tenga un alma grande.

That was one manifestation of fear, the voice which whispered that he could not be both great and good, that genius was the exact combination of those inexplicable grooves and twists in his mind, that any discipline would curb it to mediocrity.

A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Life is what we conceive it to be. For the farmer who considers his field to be everything, the field is an empire. For a Caesar whose empire is still not enough, the empire is a field. The poor man who possesses an empire, the great man a field. All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must base our life's reality. This has nothing to do with anything.

The nocturnal glory of being great without being anything! The sombre majesty of splendours no one knows… And I suddenly experience the sublime feeling of a monk in the wilderness or of a hermit in his retreat, acquainted with the substance of Christ in the sands and in the caves of withdrawal from the world.

Inutilmente parecemos grandes. Salvo nós nada pelo mundo fora Nos saúda a grandeza Nem sem querer nos serve.

Nascer liberto é a maior grandeza do homem

Uzeo ga, pa vratio, Nil veliki, ve?ni.

I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we don't know ourselves, the conscious recording of the unconsciousness of our conscious states, the metaphysics of autonomous shadows, the poetry of the twilight

irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we don't know ourselves, the conscious recording of the unconsciousness of our conscious states, the metaphysics of autonomous shadows, the poetry of the twilight of disillusion.

It has always disappointed me to read the allusions in Amiel's diary to the fact that he published books. That's where he falls down. How great he would be otherwise!

Flashes of awareness that we live an illusion – that, and no more, is what distinguishes the greatest of men.

Las grandes melancolías, las tristezas llenas de tedio no pueden existir sino en un ambiente confortable y de lujo sobrio.

The life one lives is one long misunderstanding, a happy medium between a greatness that does not exist and a happiness that cannot exist.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

To be born free is Man's greatest quality; it is what makes the humble hermit superior to kings, superior even to the gods, who are sufficient unto themselves only by virtue of their power but not by virtue of their disdain for it.

I can't be compared to Pele. I need to do so much more to be compared to Pele. Pele is fantastic. And he's unique.

I always knew one day fatherhood would be great, I just didn't think it would be this great.

The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

I just don't want to be a champion; I want to be one of the best fighters there ever was.

I am not like most fighters. I want to be on the list of the greatest, best boxers in history.