Greatness Quotes - Page 31

The person best suited to look out for your interests is you. The more you depend on yourself, the more positive control you have over every aspect of your life. Take personal responsibility for who you are, what you do, and how you live. You are the only person who knows what is best for you. And you are the one who is most able to achieve it!! You have GREATNESS within you!

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

No one can stand in the way of your personal greatness

Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.