Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Brandes

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Huey Lewis

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records... Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

Homer

Ajax the great Himself a host.

Eric Burns

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

Jason Mraz

Sometimes people forget their own greatness.

Hillary Clinton

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

Herbert Hoover

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Jack Johnson

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

Marian Edelman

It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Greatness breaks laws.

John F. Kennedy

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

John F. Kennedy

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

Justin Verlander

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Paul Tsongas

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Paul Tsongas

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

Pope Benedict XVI

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

Pope Benedict XVI

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

Pope John Paul II

The greatness of work is inside man.

Pope John Paul II

That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.

Pope John Paul II

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

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.