Quotes About Greatness

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness

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.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to say is 'icon,' 'star,' 'hero,' ones so possessed by an internal vision of divine goodness that they give us a glimpse of the face of God in the center of the human. They give us a taste of the possibilities of greatness in ourselves.

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.

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.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

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

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.

True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.

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

As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

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

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.

When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

We were all illegal at one point and we were all unwanted at one point. Somebody in our family, if not us, was undesirable, and yet here we are. And this moral equivalence that this president [Barak Obama] makes is part and parcel of his effort to tear down the greatness and the uniqueness of this country. Make no mistake.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

'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.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

So what will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to find ways, not only to connect to computers, but to connect to people; not only to bridge gaps in science, but to bridge gaps between cultures; not only to use numbers and formulas to create, but to use words to lead, and in the process, to close that canyon between ignorance and understanding.

Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.