Greatness Quotes - Page 44

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their station, the upward way is open for you. There is no such thing as inheriting a fixed mental position; no matter how small the mental capital we receive from our parents, it may be increased; no man is incapable of growth.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

A great man is made so for others.

We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The most useful is the greatest.

Greatness is its own torment.