Greatness Quotes - Page 9

What comes, is called.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It’s about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life by the horns, and persevere amidst setbacks. They take control of their lives, instead of waiting for others to open up doors. In this very important sense, greatness is completely, utterly, made.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and I chewed as fast as I could.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!