greatness Quotes

“Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey’s greatness.”

“All things great are wound up with all things little.”

“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.”

“Then my uncle became a great man, and myself the nephew of a great man, which is at least something.”

“Good is the enemy of great. Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline.”

“Core values are essential for enduring greatness, but it doesn’t seem to matter what those core values are.”

“We found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves.”

“Thus our tender minds, fettered by the prejudices and habits of a just servitude, are unable to expand themselves, or to attain that well-proportioned greatness which we admire in the ancients.”

“Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing. Because I couldn’t handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and average-ness, and I hated myself for it, and ultimately, I realized, I punished her for it. I turned her into the brittle, prickly thing she became.”

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

“I got a great ride...The greatest ride I ever got from the greatest horse that ever lived.”

“Researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”

“It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures.”

″ If you and I want to do great stuff, we can’t let ourselves work small.”

“And yet what precisely is this ‘greatness’? Just where, or in what, does it lie? . . . I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart.”

“Greatness makes you a legend; being the best makes you an icon. If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected.”

“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”

“It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.”

“You may not need to be great, but the world needs your greatness.”

“For too long we have allowed apathy to masquerade itself as humility. There is nothing humble about living apathetic lives. In the same way, we cannot live lives of passion without unlocking our greatness.”

“Whatever God has placed within you that could ever be described as great was never meant for you, anyway. It’s a stewardship that has been given to you. Greatness never belongs to the one who carries it; it belongs to the world that needs it.”

“Passion is the fuel of greatness, and love is the fuel of passion. When we love someone or something, we give them all of us. This is the elegant interconnection between servanthood and greatness. It is love that drives us to serve and love that drives us to greatness. This is why the two cannot be mutually exclusive. In the end, the one who serves is the one who is great, as they are the one who loves most profoundly.”

“Greatness is not the absence of humility; it is the absence of apathy.”

“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”

“And I wish I could do All these great things for you!”

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.”

“I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be! If I say so myself, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!”

″‘You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you? I whispered, ‘What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.’ He needed to know that and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went. ‘Marley,’ I said. ‘You are a great dog.‘”

“It is impossible to live at the brink of your greatness if you do not take time to discover it.”

“You give a lot of great advice about what to do. Do you have any advice of what not to do?”

“ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.”

“To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.”

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

Great men are not born great, they grow great.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage,”

“Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”

“I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”

“God is preparing you for greater things. He’s going to take you further than you thought possible, so don’t e surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself and act accordingly.”

“When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

″‘You don’t understand. I’m going to be great. I have more potential than you have!’
‘Potential,’ I said, ‘doesn’t mean a thing. You’ve got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.‘”