Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marx

A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

Oswald Chambers

'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.

Myles Munroe

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

Myles Munroe

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

Mike Schmidt

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

Mario Puzo

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

Nicki Minaj

Greatness is what we on the brink of.

Muhammad Ali

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

Muhammad Ali

Who's gonna dare to be great?

Muhammad Ali

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Muhammad Ali

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Muhammad Ali

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Marian Wright Edelman

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Margot Asquith

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Mark Victor Hansen

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

Mitt Romney

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

Lita Ford

I loved Herman's Head. And it was a great experience

Pablo Picasso

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

Oprah Winfrey

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Oprah Winfrey

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

Oprah Winfrey

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

Oprah Winfrey

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

Oliver Goldsmith

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All great men are partially inspired.