Top 1200 Potential For Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

It is so important for children to know that being a little bit wobbly or 'different' doesn't stop somebody from achieving greatness!

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

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

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

There is no easy way to greatness in any venue. But if you work hard, good things will inevitably happen to you.

As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

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

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

My fear is that we will mistake the brand, the "resistance," for greater unity than actually exists and wind up settling for any Democrat the next time around. We have an opportunity right now to build much greater consensus about the need for a meaningful alternative and building a truly transformational movement, town by town, city by city, that has the potential to help birth truly revolutionary change in this country. That potential exists. We got a glimpse of it when such enthusiasm erupted over a democratic socialist Bernie Sanders running for president.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

When I started my podcast, 'The School of Greatness,' one of the top three people I wanted to get on the show was Tony Robbins.

There aren't many people in the world that are as respected and loved when it comes to entertainment and as big as Pac. But the greatness that I adore the most is him as a man.

All I want is greatness for West Virginia, and I'll work with anyone who is ready to help me turn this state around.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?