Quotes about greatness
greatness deserving-it mind
Charles Caleb Colton Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
Charles Caleb Colton In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Charles Caleb Colton Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
greatness excellence littles
Charles Simmons True greatness consists in being great in little things.
greatness shy enough
Chris Colfer You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough
greatness men yams
Chinua Achebe You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.
greatness where-you-are depends
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
greatness serious scene
Edward Gibbon [The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
greatness sensual riches
David Brainerd Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
greatness doe goodness
Athenaeus Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
greatness swings ideas
Arnold Palmer Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.
greatness ideas people
Denis Waitley The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.
greatness power honor
William Shakespeare Greatness knows itself.
greatness men world
Bertrand Russell No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
greatness
Charlie Chaplin There is greatness in everyone.
greatness quality individual
Charles Sumner The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.
greatness
Charles de Gaulle Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
greatness france
Charles de Gaulle France cannot be France without greatness.
greatness men eagles
Chanakya A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
greatness men order
Charles Baudelaire Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.
greatness worship responding
Bob Rice Worship is just responding to the greatness of God.
greatness men
Bob Saget The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.
greatness politics
William Shakespeare Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?
greatness behinds
Edward Gardner It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
greatness thinking incompleteness
Elizabeth Barrett Browning And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.
greatness men clean
Elizabeth Barrett Browning A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
greatness illusions-of-grandeur vision
Edwin Louis Cole Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
greatness serving greater
Edwin Louis Cole Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become
greatness texas confusing
Edna Ferber here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
greatness upset becoming
Bill Gothard True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.
greatness want
Bo Sanchez What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid.
greatness men tragedy
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.