Greatness Quotes

An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values

~ Sunday Adelaja

For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Confucius said that man hideth not. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

~ Kakuzō Okakura

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

Who ever achieved greatness by playing it safe!

~ Anuranjita Kumar

Greatness comes with patience.

~ Suzy Kassem

Legacies are not just for legends. Whether a million people know your name, or only one person does, you still have the right to leave your mark on the world, even if it’s only in your tiny corner of it, in the tiniest of ways.Not all of us will achieve great heights and feats. Most of us will never leave our hometown or country, let alone conquer Everest. And you know what? That’s okay. Because real life is what happens in between moments of greatness. It’s the little things that at the end of it all, you realize were greater than the sum of their parts. It’s the amount of times you laughed, or cried, danced, sang, created, inspired, and made someone smile.The best kind of legacies are the ones that are unseen. You’ll never fully be able to measure the effect of a smile or a kind word, but I promise you, the most whispered phrase can send a shockwave around the world that lasts for centuries, or even an eternity.

~ A.j. Compton

Greatness starts from bearing the willingness to embrace your uniqueness at all times.

~ Hafiz

You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?

~ Steve Maraboli

I love to challenge myself to greater heights.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

MacCaulay clutches his coat tightly and makes towards the elaborate iron gates of the park. He hurries past Apsley House: one time residence of the ‘hero of a hundred fights’ – the Duke of Wellington. His monument to his own great deeds stands yet in front of the drawing room windows. If he had, in modesty, forgotten his own greatness, he might have looked upon it, and been reminded.

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve electrical apparatus or pedal through Sweden on a bicycle! And we solicit great men to write books promoting the cult of other great men! It's really very funny, and worth the price of admission! It will all end up with every village having his own great man - a lawyer, a novelist, and a polar explorer of immense stature! And the world will become wonderfully flat and simple and easy to master . . .

~ Knut Hamsun

Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I've reached a point, where I no longer believe I am unworthy of greatness, If the people I'm surrounded by; aren't Intune with my growth, I'm happy to let go, If the job I'm working, isn't bringing out the best in me, I'm happy to find something that will. If I complain about one thing, I must be grateful for 2 more. if I can't always have everything I want, I'll make damn sure I have everything I need. If life's Thunder hands me tears, I'll be sure to laugh through it. If I lose some, I trust it's because i am about to win more. If there is darkness, the light is almost in reach. Every obstacle, is the gateway to concious living and every heartache is the gateway to the most empowered love you could feel.

~ Nikki Rowe

Greatness radiates from the lights of love and wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

~ Virginia Woolf

But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bond Street, removed only by a hand's-breadth from ordinary people who might now, for the first and last time, be within speaking distance of the majesty of England, of the enduring symbol of the state which will be known to curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth.

~ Virginia Woolf

Love is an energy to which we all must tune it. There is no greater power Source.

~ Ka Chinery

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

~ Maya Angelou

Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain

~ Earl Lovelace

It’s important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive—at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big.

~ Gary Keller

Great leaders are teachable leaders.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

No matter how successful or great you become, never forget that you are nothing without the mercy of God.

~ Hafiz

It doesn't matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?

~ Robert Tew

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

~ Ayn Rand

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian.

~ Arthur E. Bostwick

Greatness can only come to those who are always thankful, but never content with any level of progress.

~ Hafiz

Greatness is not always good.

~ Melissa Grey

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.

~ Auliq Ice

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

A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

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

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

~ Jennifer Megan Varnadore

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

~ Umberto Eco

Great women aren't born great, they become great.

~ Sabrina Newby

No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.

~ Auliq Ice

Greatness has never been a product of a mind that sees itself as being very unlucky in life.

~ Hafiz

Greatness is what happens when you relentlessly push yourself to continuously create a better you.

~ Hafiz

Greatness is what happens when you aren't afraid to relentlessly push yourself to tear down all your walls of limitations.

~ Hafiz

The great souls distinguish with two things, their greater needs and their greater agony.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad