Greatness Quotes - Page 42

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

A great ship asks deep water.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded to the Almighty God, a man enters upon the sacred path of greatness right then and there...The destiny of a human soul depends entirely on who sits upon the throne of that soul...when the flesh is removed from its position of power, the human soul is made ready to usher in the glory of its true and rightful King

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

When in doubt, choose greatness.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.