Quotes about greatness
greatness men clouds
Since, by your greatness, you Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor, As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of The sun, to water dry and barren grounds. Cyril Tourneur
greatness might way
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations. David Platt
greatness people way
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
greatness men perfect
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.' Confucius
greatness practice annoyed
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when his greatness is not recognized in his time, isn't he a sage?
greatness men honor
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
greatness men heaven
Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
greatness america president
A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced. David Limbaugh
greatness two world
I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. David Benioff
greatness discomfort
Out of discomfort comes greatness Cindy Gallop
greatness last
I thought we showed some greatness last night. Joe Paterno
greatness leadership task
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. John Buchan
greatness politics
Here was a Caesar! When comes such another? William Shakespeare
greatness home lived prayer within
My prayer is that the greatness ...that she lived will now find a home within us. Oprah Winfrey
greatness priority restore schools
My most important priority is to restore our schools to greatness. Gray Davis
greatness means wants
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants William Cobbett
greatness upset becoming
True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one. Bill Gothard
greatness want
What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid. Bo Sanchez
greatness blast shakes
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
greatness sea vapour
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
greatness haste glory
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
greatness thinking coke
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
greatness law games
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance. John C. Maxwell
greatness skills achievement
No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.
greatness heights leads rough
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
greatness feelings motorcycle
Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness. James McAvoy
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 siddhartha speech
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. Hermann Hesse