A Quote by Charles Simmons
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
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Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
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.
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
You can only be great at the big things by being great at the little things. Do something little with greatness today.
Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
The greatness of the human being consists in this:
that it is capable of the universe.
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
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.
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