Greatness Quotes

2048 Greatness quotes by 1107 unique authors

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. — Damien Hirst
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of… — Wendy Beckett
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion. — A. Powell Davies
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without… — Alain de Botton
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be… — Jane Porter
Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great. — Stephen Vizinczey
I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness. — Demi Moore
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my… — Tom Coburn
You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world. — Jack Johnson
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all… — Jacques Lipchitz
You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the… — Giorgio Morandi
I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weÂ’ve become;… — Dave Pelzer
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the… — Gerhard Richter
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation,… — Alexander Crummell
If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be… — Rudolf Steiner
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. — Charles Saatchi
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone.… — Eric Avery
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of… — Clinton Rossiter
Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought. — Cleopatra
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp. — Sonny Perdue
No, our greatness does not come from our government. — Sonny Perdue
God is so great that the greatness precludes existence. — Raimon Panikkar

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