Top 1200 Greatness Within Quotes & Sayings

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.

I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders.

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

In order to do something you've never done, you've got to become someone you've never been. I think that all of us have great potential within us, but greatness is a choice; it's not our destiny. And in the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials, failures and disappointments , which take us to the door of discovery and greatness.

Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

That's what I'm trying to manifest, greatness within myself, no matter who they put in the ring.

The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

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

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

I think greatness is found within mundanity, those boring little ticks throughout the day.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

I believe in highlighting the 'greatness' that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.