Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Mark Victor Hansen

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

Mitt Romney

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

Nelson Mandela

Let your greatness bloom.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

Oprah Winfrey

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Oprah Winfrey

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

Oprah Winfrey

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

Oprah Winfrey

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

Oliver Platt

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

Oliver Goldsmith

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

Margaret Atwood

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All great men are partially inspired.

Ken Page

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.

Lafcadio Hearn

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Pablo Picasso

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Oscar Wilde

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Lucretius

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Michael Jordan

You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

Mario Puzo

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Nicki Minaj

Greatness is what we on the brink of.

Matt Dillon

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

Oswald Chambers

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

Michel de Montaigne

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.