Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jasmine Guy

I've always known the greatness of black people.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Calvin Coolidge

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Brother Lawrence

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

Edmund Spenser

The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Burke

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Eckhart Tolle

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Elie Wiesel

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

Eamon de Valera

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

Albert Camus

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

Albert Camus

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Daniel J. Boorstin

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Damien Hirst

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

Andre Gide

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Christopher Reeve

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Christopher Paolini

...but anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness...

Andrew Cohen

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

Ambrose Bierce

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Alphonse de Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Afrika Bambaataa

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

Debbie Ford

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

E. M. Forster

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Donald Trump

Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.

Donald Miller

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

Dolly Parton

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Darrell Issa

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

Daisaku Ikeda

The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

Condoleezza Rice

Every life is capable of greatness.

Cleopatra

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

Dan Gable

Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.