Quotes about greatness
greatness painful neighbor
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. Jonathan Swift
greatness elements certain
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness. Harvey Cushing
greatness important ordinary
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. Henry David Thoreau
greatness law-of-attraction goal
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
greatness world reincarnation
The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi
greatness may influence
Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant. John C. Maxwell
greatness artist office
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist. James Joyce
greatness destiny men
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. James Russell Lowell
greatness broken effort
A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts. Friedrich Schiller
greatness guilt criminals
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
greatness presidential republican
Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness. Jon Meacham
greatness expression discipline
The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches. Jon Landau
greatness men partners
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness. Lucan
greatness mind height
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts. Luc de Clapiers
greatness men thinking
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
greatness order great-things
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.
greatness ideas criticism
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word. Louis Pasteur
greatness signs
You could see signs of greatness in this team. But you can really see it now.
greatness mindfulness here-and-now
Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now. Napoleon Hill
greatness giving trying
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
greatness men spheres
In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. Napoleon Bonaparte
greatness men light
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
greatness vanity needs
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
greatness men tragedy
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
greatness lasting
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
greatness poet
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
greatness vocabulary phrases
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. Og Mandino
greatness men tests
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness. Orison Swett Marden
greatness men nerves
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
greatness order focus
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout. Epictetus
greatness idealism time
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. Marian Edelman
greatness needs imports
You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own. Alan Cohen
greatness treasure turns
To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.