Quotes About Greatness

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Great souls are harmonious.

Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

In greatness, life and death merge.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing This side of death, Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

for their own self-protection, great figures like Socrates, Spinoza, or Galileo in every generation and culture must somehow learn to camouflage their superiority or suffer the painful consequences.

To express this increasingly complex subject as succinctly as possible, the ancestors of our species developed the brain power to connect with other minds and to conceive unlimited time, distance, and potential outcomes. This infinite reach of imagination, put quite simply, is what made us great.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

A man to match the mountains and the sea.

An apology is such an expression that shows, not only greatness and insight; whereas, it also protects from breaking the family ties, and friendly contacts.

Forgiveness pictures and endorses one's purity and beauty of character and conduct; which defines the human's humanity and greatness.

Living self-isolated and powerless with truth shows the greatness of humanity than the governing with the crown of lies.

Only humanity describes and endorses humans the great creature upon other creatures; otherwise, it stays the worst of all.

Tone, attitude, and character prove the greatness, maturity, and insight, not the gray hair, age, or appearance.

Whether people were great or not, there was not much variety in their inner life experience. Any difference lay merely in how they dealt with common human weaknesses.

A great man is not made simply by innate ability. Circumstances must give him the opportunity. These circumstances are often the malevolent conditions that surround a man and work on his character, almost as if they were trying to torture him. When his enemies have taken every form possible, both seen and unseen, and ally themselves to confront him with every hardship imaginable, he encounters the real test of greatness.

The King, who excelled all the princes of his time in wisdom and greatness of soul, did not suffer difficulty to deter him or danger to daunt him from anything that had to be taken up or carried through, for he-had trained himself to bear and endure whatever came, without yielding in adversity, or trusting to the deceitful favors of fortune in prosperity.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.