Greatness Quotes

You have a great name .. They must kill your name before they can kill you , cuz name is your idea , and ideas are bulletproofs :))

~ Hamza Wolf

Great men know how to control two things, their women and money.

~ Habeeb Akande

There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.

~ Bauvard

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

~ Pat Conroy

In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other miserable beauties.

~ Roman Payne

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

~ Susan Sontag

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.

~ Frederick Buechner

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

~ Wayde Goodall

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

God is great, God is faithful.~R. Alan Woods [2103]

~ R. Alan Woods

Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,Yet would the Soldan by his conquering powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.

~ Christopher Marlowe

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

~ Hayley Williams

A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.

~ Amish Tripathi

I write because I'm free,because I can,because I will. I write because I must,because I'm breathing,because I'd go crazy otherwise,because it's who I am.I write to make a statement,to share my thoughts,to discover myself,to express my ideas.But most of all, I write for future generations.I write for love. I write to inspire.I write to encourage. I write for me.

~ Nadège Richards

But what is great can only begin great.

~ Martin Heidegger

A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

~ Oscar Wilde

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible, then maybe the rest of the world can do what's possible.

~ Jonathan Malley

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

~ Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart.

~ Nadège Richards

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

~ Stanislaw Lem

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.

~ Steven Adler

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

~ Maimonides

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

~ Wilma Rudolph

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

~ Tecumseh

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

~ Bill Mccartney

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

~ Marina Abramović

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

~ Robert Kennedy

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

~ José Martí

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

~ John Cusack

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

~ Phillips Brooks

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

~ Saint Bernard

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

~ Jonathan Swift

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

~ William Cobbett

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

~ Rene Redzepi

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin