Greatness Quotes - Page 59

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!

Make greatness attainable by all.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

From the hindsight of history George Washington seems larger than life, more statuesque than man. Too bad! Washington's greatness as a leader was courage under fire and persistence in the face of obstacles. Yet even he at times doubted himself. But he put those doubts aside and forged ahead, convinced of his noble purpose.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

God can make greatness out of a great mess

Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you'll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.