Top 1200 Potential For Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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

Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

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

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

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

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

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

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

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

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

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

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

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

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 nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

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

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

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

It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.

I think it's important, no matter your profession, to never become complacent and always strive for greatness.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on us, the potential to hold infinity in every cell of the body. For that, we must practice meditation regularly. Then our physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with prana - life force. As the level of prana in the body rises, we bubble with joy.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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

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

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

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?

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

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

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

Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

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

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

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

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

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

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

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

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.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.