Greatness Quotes - Page 65

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be managed or predicted, just hoped for and, perhaps, facilitated. But for me innovation was and still is more than that. It was a battle in the marketplace between innovators or attackers trying to make money by changing the order of things, and defenders protecting their cash flow.

In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

The greatness of work is inside man.

All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.