Top 1200 Potential For Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on September 30, 2024.
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
A vote for Donald J. Trump is a vote for renewed American greatness.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
The U.S. has always sought to sow intrigue against Iran but has never succeeded in the face of Iran's greatness.
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.
I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
It's my theme, my whole theme is, "Make America Great Again." It's a concept of greatness for this country.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.
Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.
Honestly, I hated Dirk growing up. As I got older and wiser, obviously I was really able to appreciate his greatness as I learned the game of basketball.
The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.
I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
