Top 1200 Destined For Greatness Quotes & Sayings

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

I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.

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

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.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

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

There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and ask: Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

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

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

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

I think 'destined for greatness,' for me, is digging deep inside and knowing that I will always strive to be the best person I can possibly be and effect change in a positive way.

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.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

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

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.

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

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

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

I feel projects are destined for actors. Whenever I find the project destined for me I'll be at it with full force.

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

We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

Big Thief is destined for greatness.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

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.

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.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

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

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

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

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

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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

Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

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

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

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.

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

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

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

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.

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

I've said all along that I was destined for greatness.

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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.

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