Greatness Quotes

Nobody's perfect. They are weak, with ugly hearts, and they quickly turn to jealousy. They try to knock others down. It's so odd . . . In the world we live in, the greater a person is, the more difficult his or her life becomes.

~ Wataru Watari

Little things are little things, but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.

~ William Temple

You cannot let a fear of failure, or a fear of comparison, or a fear of judgement stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure, you cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss. You must go out and take these risk. … Do what’s uncomfortable, and scary, and hard, but pays off in the long run. Be willing to fail. Let yourself fail. Fail in the way and the place where you would want to fail. Fail, pick yourself up and fail again. Because without this struggle, what is your success anyway?

~ Charlie Day

To become the best terrorists of your kind, it will take about 30,000 hours on focused practice. How you think of achieving a goal is not the same as how you want to achieve a goal. Not everything you think about is done the right way it should be done.

~ Prince Akwarandu

Those who seek to aspire are those who achieve Greatness.

~ Saim .A. Cheeda

The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.

~ Peter Koestenbaum

You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

~ Agatha Christie

A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others.

~ Amit Abraham

Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...

~ G.e. Moore

His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.

~ Laurie Perez

You're allowed to practice humility while also owning your greatness. Don't you dare minimize your greatness.

~ Erica Alex

There are thoughts that don’t let you sleep in the darkness of nights. Thoughts of life, love, circumstances and dreams. Interestingly, these thoughts don’t disappear when you have your eyes opened in the day ahead. Whether you live greatly or not is determined by these thoughts.

~ Taranpreet Singh

He who is great judges himself and sets his own standards.

~ Spirit Rain

If you read, you will have great wisdom for great life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship.

~ Sharvani Akula

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

If it were easy it would not be any fun.

~ T Jay Taylor

Scars can mark you for greatness.

~ Amy Neftzger

Great love, great life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When our little bit is combined with His greatness, the team is unbeatable.

~ James C. Dobson

The fullness of God’s grace fills us with power for every good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the brains or the courage to tell the truth.

~ Kenneth Roberts

To do what you want is not a privilege. It is a curse. It is the curse of ordinary men. Men with no responsibilities do whatever they want. Common men with no value and self worth do whatever they want. Men whose lives have no worthy purpose are free to do whatever they want. Not you. You are a prince for whom a heavy crown and a powerful throne await. You do not do whatever you want; you do what must be done.- King Chuka

~ Ray Anyasi

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

~ Alan Rickman

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

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so inexhaustible a subject.

~ Charles Dickens

There is something that happens when you know that life is finite: a desire for greatness, for whatever fleeting moments of brilliance you can leave in the world after you're gone. And whether the end of your life is five years away or fifty, the fact that you just don't know is a great motivator for not waiting to begin that thing that could potentially be your legacy. Whether it's a work of art, or a scientific breakthrough, a good deed, or a child, leaving something of yourself for others to experience and remember is sometimes the greatest excuse to live a life that's more than just crossing the distance between birth and death.

~ April White

1000 mile road begins with a single step, the freedom road begins with a scream that fires the battle, and the greatness road begins with a question that fires the spark of the change.

~ Ammar Moussa (عمار موسى)

My father always seems to think greatness and money are the same thing, but you know what I think greatness is?What? I ask.Being brave, like Miss Korzynski. Doing something that no one else has dared to do before you. Finding something that terrifies you and then doing it anyway.

~ Jillian Cantor

The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it’s a duty preceding been an honour.

~ Ammar Moussa (عمار موسى)

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

~ S. Tarr

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

~ Debasish Mridha

True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It's about why and how you serve the number of people you serve.

~ Damilola Oluwatoyinbo

They might think you are being delusional for dreaming big, but so did a lot people think about most great individuals before their greatness.

~ Hafiz

If the churches, mosques and other religious centres could come together to embrace a nation’s value system, and then set out to disciple the nation in these values and virtues, then the greatness of such a nation is inevitable.

~ Sunday Adelaja