Top 1200 Greatness Within Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

I think the main thing that we have to do is try and train ourselves to remember from moment to moment that God is living within us and within everybody else, and just trying to remember to see that.

With 'Girls,' Marnie was a slow burn; she shifted over time. With 'Get Out,' I was suddenly faced with the pressure that, like, I need an audience to know Rose deeply within 15 minutes, within a couple scenes. And that's not something I've ever done before.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.

In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.

On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.

I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids. They pass within geosynchronous orbit sometimes, and they pass within the Earth and the moon.

Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.

I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the interests of 51 percent of the population is covering such divergent experiences, perspectives, and priorities that, if you're doing it right, people are going to be arguing within it.

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

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

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.

Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.