Greatness Quotes - Page 52

I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

To be great, art has to point somewhere.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry "Down with traitors!" And the dawn shout "Up the rebs!"

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fix'd the fountains of this temporal light, where stately stars enstall'd, some stand, some stray, all sparks of his great power (though small) yet bright. By what none utter can, no, not conceive. All of his greatness, shadows may perceive.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.