Greatness Quotes

Greatness Quote of the day

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Calmness is always Godlike.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

A great ship asks deep water.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

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.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

A great man is always willing to be little.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

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

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

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

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

Nothing great ever happens overnight. Greatness takes time❤ #justsayin

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

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

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.

Impossible is nothing.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.