Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

Iyanla Vanzant

Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, with the very thing you have tried desperately to avoid. In that moment, when there is nothing standing between you and the thing you fear the most, you will be forced to step into your greatness, because that is what life is demanding of you.

Isaac Disraeli

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Georges Bernanos

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

George Whitefield

You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.

Jim Harbaugh

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

Jesse Jackson

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Jean Ingelow

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

James C. Collins

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

James C. Collins

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

James C. Collins

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

James C. Collins

Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

James C. Collins

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

Gary Bauer

Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

George Chapman

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Chris Rock

I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.

Fran Tarkenton

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

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.

Jean Rostand

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Jean de La Fontaine

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Harpo Marx

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

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.