Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Ignatius of Antioch

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Horace

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Gottfried Leibniz

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

George Bernard Shaw

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

George Bernard Shaw

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Eric Burns

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

George W. Bush

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George R. R. Martin

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

Frederick Buechner

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Fernando Pessoa

I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

Felix Mendelssohn

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it.

Euripides

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Euripides

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

Erwin McManus

Greatness comes with discipline.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Jennifer Granholm

powerful because she was improbable. ... Her greatness lay in doing what everyone could but doesn't.

There were signs of greatness, but we obviously didn't play up to our potential or as well as we wanted to play,

Janet Erskine Stuart

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

Janelle Monae

Perfection is the enemy of greatness

Janelle Monae

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness

Jane Porter

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

Jane Porter

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

Frank Herbert

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

Frank Herbert

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Frank Herbert

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

George Herbert

A great ship asks deep water.

Jean de la Bruyere

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.