Quotes About Greatness

You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness.

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.

Stop acting so small, you are as big as the universe!!!!!!!!

Those who clamour for true greatness are not swayed by the glamour of its treasures

Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

To achieve greatness it simply starts with self-belief.

Seek and achieve "GREATNESS" instead of mere success

There has never been any great person who never met great trials and oppositions but their patience, tenacity, endurance and perseverance saw them to the end as great people

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

for it does take greatness, I think, to stand resolutely against your own people, especially when you are alone, and especially when you that even history will not be kind to you, since you will have forever given the lie all the claims with which the High and the Mighty will try to exonerate themselves.

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

You are much much greater on women. Céline is arid.

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness.

Writing about a person invariably honors them or devalues them. Both Boukreev and DeWalt err on the side of honoring those attempting Everest, while Krakauer draws his reader toward tabloid-style assumptions that erase heroism from the Himalaya as surely as modern journalism erases greatness from the presidency.

Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don't mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It's real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none.

Greatness is not synonymous with perfection or popularity. In the long-arc narratives of male genius that reach far beyond a lifetime, greatness is established despite, and in the glaring light of, great flaws. Great men are by definition to be reckoned with and honored for the dilemmas they force us to confront, while the ways to castigate a woman of brilliance and ambition are second-nature and sometimes fatal, whether she's deemed evil or merely, as they say, problematic.

We all either underestimate each other, or else exaggerate each other's virtues. Very few people are capable of assessing others as they deserve. It is a particular gift. In fact I would even say that only the great are capable of it.

True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.

The two greatest men who ever lived—Jesus and Socrates—were both hoboes." It

He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.