Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leymah Gbowee

When women gather, great things will happen.

Lawrence Clark Powell

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

Marcus Garvey

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

Marcus Garvey

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Thomas a Kempis

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

Samuel Johnson

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Samuel Johnson

No one ever became great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Samuel Johnson

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Samuel Johnson

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Sam Walton

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Ronald Reagan

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Robert Jordan

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Robert James Waller

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

Robert Hughes

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

Walt Disney

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Walt Whitman

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Ronald Reagan

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

Saadi

Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

Thomas A. Edison

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Sheila Jackson Lee

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

Natalie Goldberg

Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

Natalie Goldberg

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

Tom Petty

I've always had a great love for the blues.

Simon Sinek

Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.

Simon Sinek

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

Thomas Merton

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

Thomas Carlyle

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.