Top 1200 True Greatness Quotes & Sayings

The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

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

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

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

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

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

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

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

I believe in highlighting the 'greatness' that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

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

Failure is the true test of greatness

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

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

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

Stick to your true north - build greatness for the long term.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.