Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Disraeli

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

Muhammad Ali

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

Muhammad Ali

Who's gonna dare to be great?

Muhammad Ali

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Muhammad Ali

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Muhammad Ali

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Marian Wright Edelman

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Margot Asquith

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Mark Victor Hansen

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

Mitt Romney

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

Nelson Mandela

Let your greatness bloom.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

Oprah Winfrey

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Oprah Winfrey

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

Oprah Winfrey

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

Oprah Winfrey

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

Oliver Goldsmith

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All great men are partially inspired.

Pablo Picasso

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Oscar Wilde

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Michael Jordan

You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

Mario Puzo

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Nicki Minaj

Greatness is what we on the brink of.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.