Greatness Quotes - Page 10

The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

William Makepeace Thackeray

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

William Hazlitt

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

There is no one great man. Only millions of men and women in possession of tiny pieces of greatness, which when put together, when assembled in the aggregate make the whole. I am a piece of a very large jigsaw puzzle. One of the corner pieces. The one you go for first - important for a time, different from most of the others. But then, in the end, in the big picture, just one of many.

Mark Dunn

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

Greatness is an opiate.

Toba Beta

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

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

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

Lady Gaga

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

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

Cher

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

Winston S. Churchill

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

Thomas Jefferson

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard M. Nixon

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Hatred, like a bush fire, ultimately consumes those who propagate it, leaving nothing but scorched, barren earth behind in their hearts. Love, the greatest of reckless endeavours, inspires men to greatness in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds... Maybe this book is just that, a reckless endeavour of the heart.

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.

Nothing great ever happens from thinking small.

dare greatly, think great.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes

Mohammed Sekouty

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is not about how others feel about you,its about how you feel about yourself.

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now. Time will soon tell.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.

Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness.

The true essence of greatness is in finding self in selfishness

To win, you have to believe you will win.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great men are made in the crucible of experiences

Osho Samuel Adetunji

Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.

Toba Beta

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

Michael Bassey Johnson

What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it. No matter how many teachings that you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma.

Patrul Rinpoche

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

Shannon L. Alder

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

Michael Bassey Johnson

All divine power is within you to accomplish great things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Grace is the divine assistance that gives you advantage over those who are better than you.

With grace and gratitude, great lives evolve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person—the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments—is the true measure of lasting greatness.

That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.

You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime.

This very moment is your greatest adventure.

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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