Quotes about greatness
greatness people facts
Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power. Julius Charles Hare
greatness destiny symphony
A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion. Joyce Cary
greatness mediocrity pay
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. Oscar Wilde
greatness purpose graves
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends. Kami Garcia
greatness made grows
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be! Joyce Meyer
greatness ideas research
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. Paul Dirac
greatness men glimpse
I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that. John Piper
greatness goal missions
The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
greatness self joy
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.
greatness men bigs
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
greatness people giving
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. Martin Luther
greatness judging dignity
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity. Paulo Freire
greatness dust color
Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness. Matthew Gray Gubler
greatness notes creeds
'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. Oswald Chambers
greatness men prudent
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it. Niccolo Machiavelli
greatness substance admire
I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
greatness men hollywood-life
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . Mario Puzo
greatness men bad-man
I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty! Muhammad Ali
greatness dare dare-to-be-great
Who's gonna dare to be great?
greatness thinking becoming
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
greatness truth-is jokes
Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.
greatness accomplish-nothing marketing
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
greatness pay mediocrity
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
greatness practice games
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. Michael Jordan
greatness painting should
Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.
greatness knowing soul
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. Michel de Montaigne
greatness greed action
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. Marian Wright Edelman
greatness men intellectual
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him. Margot Asquith
greatness determined fame
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service. Martin Luther King, Jr.
greatness important definitions
If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
greatness determined
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
greatness thinking self
I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers. Mark Victor Hansen
greatness usa america
Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America. Mitt Romney