Famous Quotes & Sayings

A.J. is a great guy inside. He's got a great heart. He was a great teammate. He wants to win. That's what I like about him. He made a mistake. We all make mistakes. Hopefully he'll learn from it.

A.J. has been great all year. He's a physical presence.

John Roberts

a judge's judicial work is not influenced...by his sense, sharp or vague, of where justice lies in respect to the great issues of his time.

Eric Lefkofsky

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

Paulo Freire

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

Philip Sidney

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Philip Sidney

Great is not great to the greater.

Philip Sidney

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.

Philip Sidney

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Peter Drucker

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

Peter Drucker

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

Paulo Coelho

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Max Lucado

God's present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.

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.

Max Frisch

My greatest fear: repetition.

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.

John Ruskin

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

John Ruskin

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

John Ruskin

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

John Ruskin

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

John Ruskin

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

John Milton

He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

Norm Dicks

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

Nina Hagen

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

Mike Tyson

Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

Miguel de Cervantes

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

John Henrik Clarke

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

John Drinkwater

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Donne

At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

John Ortberg

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.