Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas Carlyle

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Tony Hsieh

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

Steve Carell

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

Spike Lee

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

Sigmund Freud

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Thomas Jane

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

Victor Hugo

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Vicente Fox

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

Robert Fritz

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

Thucydides

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Thomas Paine

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

Thomas Huxley

There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said: "he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anyone." But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such as one was Descartes.

Timbaland

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

Rumi

Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.

Steve Wozniak

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Sun Tzu

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.

Ricky Skaggs

Great music is great music, period.

Ricky Williams

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

Richard Hamming

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

T. D. Jakes

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.

T. D. Jakes

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

T. D. Jakes

If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

T. D. Jakes

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

T. S. Eliot

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

T. S. Eliot

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

Truman Capote

With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

Rhonda Byrne

Out of my greatest dispair, was to come my greatest gift.

Rhonda Byrne

Success comes from within, not from without.

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.