Greatness Quotes - Page 10

What keeps me going is goals.

I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace ... beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it.

Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.

Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.

Worship is a response to greatness. A man does not become a worshipper merely by saying, "Now I shall become a worshipper." That is impossible. That cannot be done. A man becomes a worshipper when he sees something great that calls forth his admiration or his worship. That is the only way worshippers are made. Worship answers to greatness.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.

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

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

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

To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us. It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

I know I'm a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can go through the basic motions pretty well, don't rely quite as religiously on specific fly patterns as I once did, have worked out ways of compensating for some of my most egregious weaknesses and have come to count heavily on timing because it's a hell of a lot easier to catch fish when the fish are biting.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.