Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Buchan

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Damien Hirst

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

Donald Trump

Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.

Adolf Hitler

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

Adolf Hitler

Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)

Adolf Hitler

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

Abraham Verghese

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

Allan Bloom

In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.

Alphonse de Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Debbie Ford

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Confucius

The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

T. D. Jakes

If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

T. S. Eliot

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

Ron Kaufman

Greatness is not how you feel, it's how you make others feel.

Thomas Merton

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

Thomas Carlyle

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Soulja Boy

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Stephen Leacock

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

Steve Wozniak

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Sun Tzu

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.

Ricky Williams

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

John Stott

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.

Theodore Parker

Greatness is its own torment.

Themistocles

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

Terry McMillan

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Margaret Fuller

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Michelangelo

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

Max Lucado

The worship of safety emasculates greatness.

Max Euwe

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Matthew Lillard

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result.

Matthew Henry

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Maya Angelou

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.