Greatness Quotes - page 28

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel. (Zig Ziglar)
The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure; and the greatness of finances and revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear by musters; and the number and greatness of cities and towns by cards and maps. But yet there is not any thing amongst civil affairs more subject to error, than the right valuation and true judgment concerning the power and forces of an estate. View quote
Francis Bacon
It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”. View quote
Francis Bacon
Yet the very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. But I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. View quote
Edwin H. Land
Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness. View quote
John Campbell Shairp
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory. View quote
John Steinbeck
Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple. View quote
Will Smith
I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era. View quote
Michael Jordan
They may fight against greatness in us who are the children of men, but can they conquer? Even if they should destroy us every one, what then? Would it save them? No! For greatness is abroad, not only in us, not only in the Food, but in the purpose of all things! It is in the nature of all things, it is part of space and time. View quote
H. G. Wells
I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness. View quote
Demi Moore
I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'. (Peter Senge)
The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind. View quote
Theodor Herzl
Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life. View quote
Judy Blume
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. View quote
John W. Gardner
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. View quote
John W. Gardner
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed. View quote
Will Rogers
Sumner was the boy's ideal of greatness; the highest product of nature and art. The only fault of such a model was its superiority which defied imitation. View quote
Henry Adams
The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Every once in a blue moon, is born a person, who has the clarity of vision, and the greatness of deed, to make us all recognize the dizzying heights the human spirit can really achieveŠBaba Amte is one of those people. View quote
Baba Amte
Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Whenever a prophet got into the superconscious state by heightening his emotional nature, he brought away from it not only some truths, but some fanaticism also, some superstition which injured the world as much as the greatness of the teaching helped. View quote
Swami Vivekananda