Famous Quotes & Sayings

James C. Collins

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

James C. Collins

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

James C. Collins

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

James C. Collins

Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

James C. Collins

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

Jason Mraz

Sometimes people forget their own greatness.

Hillary Clinton

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

Herbert Hoover

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Ernst Fischer

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Erwin McManus

Greatness comes with discipline.

Euripides

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Euripides

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

Fran Tarkenton

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

George W. Bush

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George R. R. Martin

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

Frederick Buechner

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Fernando Pessoa

I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

Felix Mendelssohn

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Georges Bernanos

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

George Whitefield

You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

George Bernard Shaw

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

George Bernard Shaw

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

Eric Burns

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

Jack Johnson

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

Oprah Winfrey

My prayer is that the greatness ...that she lived will now find a home within us.