Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mae Jemison

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

George Chapman

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chris Rock

I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.

Harry Lloyd

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Fran Tarkenton

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

John Ruskin

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

John Ruskin

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

John Ruskin

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

John Ruskin

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.

John Ruskin

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

John Milton

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.

Mike Tyson

Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

Rick Santelli

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

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.

Thomas Aquinas

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

Thomas Aquinas

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

Simon Sinek

Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.

Simon Sinek

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

Sri Chinmoy

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

Sri Chinmoy

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.

Ron Kaufman

Greatness is not how you feel, it's how you make others feel.

Ron Kaufman

Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Robert Collier

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

Walt Disney

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

William C. Bryant

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

William Butler Yeats

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

Wilhelm Reich

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness.