Greatness Quotes - Page 34

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.

The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I played the accordion in The Edith Head Trio. I'm very impressed by your Googling. The Edith Head Trio and another band, Tzamboni, were two bands I was in after college that played at tiny clubs to little acclaim. Our Gypsy tango version of "When Doves Cry" was our biggest hit.But we were not destined for greatness.

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.

Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.