Top 1200 True Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

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.

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

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

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

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

There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to add to.

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.

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.

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.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

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.

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

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

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

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

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.

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

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

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

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

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.

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.

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

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.

Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Two things have been bothering me for a long time. The first is the tendency of people in general - and that includes Christians - to "relativize" religion. Any religious belief is only "true for," so to speak - true for you or true for me or true for those people on the other side of the world. Second, I've been bothered by how poorly believers understand their own Story. They have bits and pieces, of course, but they're missing enough that they can easily become prey to ideas that sound spiritual, but end up being foolishness in the end.

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.

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

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

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

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

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

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

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

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

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

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

....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.

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