Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marianne Williamson

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

Marianne Williamson

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Marianne Williamson

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

Marianne Williamson

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.

Marianne Williamson

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Mae Jemison

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

George Chapman

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chris Rock

I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.

Harry Lloyd

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Fran Tarkenton

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Foxy Brown

Put out great music, and that's that

Friedrich Nietzsche

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

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.