Top 1200 Greatness Of God Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Investment in public infrastructure is key to America's greatness and essential to our national security.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

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

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue Greatness anyways!

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

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

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

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

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

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

What this game's really about is using each day as a platform to express your greatness.

Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.