Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

Richard Rohr

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Richard Lamm

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Richard L. Evans

He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.

Vince Gill

You can't define the ache that's in George's voice. It's just something inherently him. It doesn't need definition. It doesn't need clarification. It doesn't need a lot of things. You just sit back and appreciate it. It's just greatness.

Vince Lombardi

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

Robert G. Allen

It's a great day. Now, go make it that way.

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.

Will Smith

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

Will Smith

Greatness exists in all of us.

Will Smith

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Wayne Dyer

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Wayne Dyer

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.

Wayne Dyer

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!

Rudolf Steiner

If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.

William Cowper

Great offices will have great talents.

Wayne Dyer

Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

Twyla Tharp

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

William Allen White

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Wilferd Peterson

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilferd Peterson

Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future.