Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Gottfried Leibniz

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Jaleel White

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

James Freeman Clarke

I can do small things in a great way.

Frank Herbert

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 or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

Frank Herbert

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Frank Herbert

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

Igor Stravinsky

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

Iyanla Vanzant

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

Iyanla Vanzant

Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, with the very thing you have tried desperately to avoid. In that moment, when there is nothing standing between you and the thing you fear the most, you will be forced to step into your greatness, because that is what life is demanding of you.

Isaac Disraeli

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Homer

Ajax the great Himself a host.

Giorgio Morandi

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

Giordano Bruno

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

Harry S Truman

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

Harry S Truman

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

J. K. Rowling

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

Greg Louganis

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

Georg Brandes

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Huey Lewis

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records... Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

Alexander Smith

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Alexander Smith

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.