Quotes
Quotes about Greatness
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatnessâgreat wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. - William Hazlitt,
Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
