Quotes about greatness
greatness
Let your greatness bloom. Nelson Mandela
greatness land needs
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. Kazuo Ishiguro
greatness stones failing
Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey
greatness play foundation
To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.
greatness stones stepping-stones
Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
greatness use complaining
Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.
greatness people empowering
I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.
greatness born known
All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
greatness style way
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. Oliver Goldsmith
greatness men guilty
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. Marcus Tullius Cicero
greatness men inspired
All great men are partially inspired.
greatness goya clown
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. Pablo Picasso
greatness masterpiece
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. Igor Stravinsky
greatness space filling
You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space. Giorgio Morandi
greatness excellence world
God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. Giordano Bruno
greatness thinking two
For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great. Gerard Manley Hopkins
greatness oil flames
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
greatness men leader
There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way. Harry S Truman
greatness be-good uninterested
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
greatness doubt way
You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that. J. K. Rowling
greatness childhood doe
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow. Rainer Maria Rilke
greatness destiny artist
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside
greatness special
There is nothing as special as watching greatness. Sean Astin
greatness space sky
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies. Sidney Lanier
greatness people attention
I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies. Sebastian Horsley
greatness way shrinks
You can't shrink your way to greatness! Seth Godin
greatness matter rooms
When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
greatness matter lasts
When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.
greatness tribes our-lives
Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
greatness justice records
Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
greatness relevant
Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
greatness impossible
Go ahead, do something impossible.
greatness reality keys
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. Socrates