Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Philip Massinger

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Plutarch

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

Phillips Brooks

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Philip Yancey

God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

Pope Francis

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

Nathaniel Philbrick

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

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.

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.

Robert Wright

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

Robert Ley

Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Sanford I. Weill

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.