Greatness Quotes - Page 22

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.

There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and ask: Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.

The path to greatness is along with others.