Quotes about greatness
greatness space mind
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. John Ruskin
greatness civilization cities
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
greatness men gold
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
greatness comfort doe
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure. John Milton
greatness people guarding
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people Mike Tyson
greatness egypt rome
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. John Henrik Clarke
greatness men poetry
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. John Drinkwater
greatness men world
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. John Donne
greatness indecision
Greatness is never achieved through indecision. John Ortberg
greatness america people
The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries. Garrison Keillor
greatness quality building
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. Frank Lloyd Wright
greatness thrust
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
greatness mess
God can make greatness out of a great mess Joel Osteen
greatness keys
You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.
greatness consistency excellence
The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency. Jim Tressel
greatness law break
Greatness breaks laws. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
greatness challenges faces
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
greatness
I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over. Linda Hamilton
greatness men names
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity. Leo Tolstoy
greatness simplicity christ
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
greatness men humanity
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.
greatness democracy ears
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness. Leo Strauss
greatness perfect excellence
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
greatness broken trying
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN. Lady Gaga
greatness mentor needs
Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you're not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from? Jim Rohn
greatness satisfaction ethics
Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.
greatness would-be suggestions
My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.
greatness waiting satisfaction
Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.
greatness service-to-others
Service to others leads to greatness.
greatness differences want
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.
greatness interesting people
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
greatness
Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
greatness giving entrepreneur
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.