Quotes About Greatness

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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.

Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

If the Holy Spirit takes over your family, your business or your health, it doesn't matter what troubles you've been experiencing or what's been going wrong, you will begin to go from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from faith to faith, from success to success and from greatness to greatness. When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

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.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness.

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.

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.

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!

Success is not about having a lot but about making the most of what you have. But success alone however will not necessarily make you fulfilled or happy. It is how you share your achievements with others to make their lives better that will. This is called greatness. It is about living life with a purpose beyond self and family.

America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality." It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

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

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.

Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness.

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.