Greatness Quotes - Page 6

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds and tasks of service and sacrifice that constitute the giving or losing of one's life for others and for the Lord. They include gaining a knowledge of our Father in Heaven and of the gospel. They also include bringing others into the faith and fellowship of his kingdom. These things do not usually receive the attention or the adulation of the world.... .

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Great men have the nature of a child.

Greatness is earned, not given.

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.