Quotes about greatness
greatness intensity midst
Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity. Ricky Williams
greatness names letters
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. Richard Hamming
greatness childhood doe
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow. Rainer Maria Rilke
greatness destiny artist
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside
greatness special
There is nothing as special as watching greatness. Sean Astin
greatness space sky
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies. Sidney Lanier
greatness people attention
I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies. Sebastian Horsley
greatness way shrinks
You can't shrink your way to greatness! Seth Godin
greatness matter rooms
When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
greatness matter lasts
When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.
greatness tribes our-lives
Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
greatness justice records
Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
greatness relevant
Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
greatness impossible
Go ahead, do something impossible.
greatness reality keys
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. Socrates
greatness comfort doe
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure. John Milton
greatness people guarding
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people Mike Tyson
greatness wrath justice-of-god
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin. John Piper
greatness done communicate
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service. John Wesley
greatness perfection people
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. John W. Gardner
greatness people discipline
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
greatness men practice
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. John Tillotson
greatness worship speak
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them. John Stott
greatness kingdoms obedience
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
greatness envy mediocrity
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. Marie Corelli
greatness people groups
It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... It's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good. Mark Zuckerberg
greatness men institutions
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind. Theodore Parker
greatness men race
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
greatness
The most useful is the greatest.
greatness men mankind
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
greatness men world
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
greatness torment
Greatness is its own torment.
greatness people expansion
When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no! Theodore Roosevelt