Greatness Quotes - Page 55

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

Failure is the test of greatness.

It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.

What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.