Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Archibald Alexander

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Barbara Sher

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

Art Garfunkel

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

Charles Bukowski

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Sydney Smith

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Aristotle

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

Aristotle

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Aristotle

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

Aristotle

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

Ben Hogan

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

Ben Jonson

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

For he that once is good, is ever great.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Alexander Smith

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Alexander Smith

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

Alexander Hamilton

Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

Adolf Hitler

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

Adolf Hitler

Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)

Adolf Hitler

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

Abraham Verghese

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

Allan Bloom

In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.

Alan Cohen

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

Alan Cohen

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

Alan Cohen

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

Alan Cohen

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

Adam Smith

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

Adam Smith

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Aldous Huxley

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Albert Pike

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

Aaron Rodgers

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

A. S. Byatt

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.