Greatness Quotes · Page 127

God calls us not to be successful but to be significant. When we focus on Significance, success is often part of the…

— Anonymous

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant…

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— William Shakespeare

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

— Steve Rushin

Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.

— Steven Van Zandt

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

— Charles Bukowski

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

— Baltasar Gracian

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's…

— Dick Cheney

We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become…

— James C. Collins

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the…

— Erich Fromm

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this…

— Joel Osteen

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do…

— Albert Camus

The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support…

— John Bunyan

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

— Walther Rathenau

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary…

— John Locke

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

— Albert Claude

“Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be great flu that you have a glass,and there is…

— Anonymous

“A man who could do with doing things that will last forever and ever should do things right in this day and…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men—and exceedingly stupid men, usually—do.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

— Paulo Coelho

“The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.”

— Bryant McGill

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

— Charles Spurgeon

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

— Henry Ford II

“Describing Robert Bunsen: As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was…

— Henry Enfield Roscoe

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people live upset life's then die forever representing greatness.

— Denise Clark

“Sometimes a man doesn't want to be strong. Sometimes a man just wants to be human.”

— Victoria Christopher Murray

“A great man is doing you enough good when he isn't doing you harm.”

— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

— Thomas Paine

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

— Heath L'Estrange

“This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.”

— Shaun Hick

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the…

— Zig Ziglar

All the guys on 'Breaking Bad' are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.

— Laura Fraser

You are powerful, awesome & beautiful. You have greatness in you, use it. Be all you can be & share it¦¦ Blessings

— Ricardo Housham

Donald Trump doesn't pose a single threat to the greatness of America.

— Rush Limbaugh