Greatness Quotes - page 7

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others. (Swami Muktananda)
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. View quote
David Benioff
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. View quote
John Piper
God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. View quote
John Piper
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. View quote
Edwin Louis Cole
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. View quote
Les Brown
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. View quote
Lactantius
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. View quote
James C. Collins
A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness. View quote
James C. Collins
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women. (Melvil Dewey)
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. View quote
William Allen White
True greatness consists in being great in little things. View quote
Charles Simmons
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. View quote
Ernst Fischer
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. View quote
Ahmet Ertegun
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness. View quote
Bill McCartney
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. View quote
Charles Kendall Adams
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. View quote
Dorothy Height
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. View quote
Elgin Baylor
President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness. View quote
Elton Gallegly
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness. (Franco Harris)
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. View quote
Grenville Kleiser
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. View quote
James Smithson
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. View quote
John Drinkwater
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. View quote
Julia Margaret Cameron