Great Quotes

For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now. Time will soon tell.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If you are thinking of making everyone happy, you are going to be a great prostitute.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer. …. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

~ Christian D. Larson

If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again. (Sisyphus' hardship on the hill)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness.

~ Jeffrey Fry

You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

To vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do not let the media or the establishment make you pick from the people they choose, but instead choose from those they do not pick.

~ Suzy Kassem

Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't be discouraged if the people around you don't see what you see in your dream. Most great people were doubted in the beginning of their journey to greatness.

~ Hafiz

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Greatness is the flower of great adversity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Seize every opportunity and make it great.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God's help is available for us to achieve great things. We must put our hope and trust in the Lord.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Greatness is achieved, not only by doing great things, but also,by making the small things we dogreat.

~ S. Tarr

You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.

~ Roel Van Sleeuwen

Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

But what is great can only begin great.

~ Martin Heidegger

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

~ Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating that politicians routinely lie to their electorate.

~ Steven Magee

It takes great faith to fight the odds in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing valuable or great was ever discovered by quitting.

~ Hafiz

You could only be stopped from being happy, successful, or great through your thoughts and beliefs.

~ Hafiz

In every single one of us lies a mind that's powerful enough to articulate some amazing ideas, which could be turned into a great financial success

~ Hafiz

No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is a great treasure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stephen King is a great and incredible character.

~ Deyth Banger

The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.

~ Christian D. Larson

President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.

~ Steven Magee

The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.

~ Steven Magee

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

~ Debasish Mridha

Good players want to be coached. Great players want to be told the truth.

~ Doc Rivers

Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.

~ Gugu Mona

No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you've become. Never forget those who have lifted you up. Never forget life's experiences, both good and bad which have shaped you as a person. You've had help climbing the rungs of life's ladder. And, those rungs can break at anytime, sending you back down to a place of humility, to remind you of where you came from and how you rose to the top….

~ James A. Murphy