Greatness Quotes - Page 16

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.

Where the determination is, the way can be found.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.

I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.