Quotes about greatness
greatness done communicate
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service. John Wesley
greatness perfection people
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. John W. Gardner
greatness people discipline
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
greatness men practice
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness. John Tillotson
greatness worship speak
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them. John Stott
greatness kingdoms obedience
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
greatness men glimpse
I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that. John Piper
greatness goal missions
The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
greatness self joy
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.
greatness men bigs
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
greatness people giving
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. Martin Luther
greatness people attention
I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies. Sebastian Horsley
greatness way shrinks
You can't shrink your way to greatness! Seth Godin
greatness matter rooms
When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
greatness matter lasts
When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.
greatness tribes our-lives
Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
greatness justice records
Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
greatness relevant
Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
greatness impossible
Go ahead, do something impossible.
greatness reality keys
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. Socrates
greatness play cities
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim. Themistocles
greatness sabotage succumbing
don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure! Terry McMillan
greatness feelings mind
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. Margaret Fuller
greatness horizon
Your greatness is measured by your horizons. Michelangelo
greatness important ordinary
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. Henry David Thoreau
greatness law-of-attraction goal
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
greatness opposites discipline
.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations. Plato
greatness hands feet
Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.... Philip Larkin
greatness thinking style
I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness. Paul Weller
greatness deeds plentiful
Words are plentiful; deeds are precious. Lech Walesa
greatness artist office
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist. James Joyce
greatness destiny men
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. James Russell Lowell
greatness broken effort
A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts. Friedrich Schiller