Quotes tagged ‘Greatness’

(52 total)

“Everybody wants to be great, but I advocate that people are already great.”

“Please, just make your life art. Make it something you are proud of.”

“Technology is not the measure of a great civilization.”

— Frank Spotnitz, Rudolph Wegener, Carsten Norgaard, imdb.com

“Can’t live with somebody putting a cap on my destiny. Spent my whole life working to be something greater by becoming something smaller. Then some guy comes along and tells me that being the Atom is as insignificant as an actual atom.”

— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Ray Palmer / The Atom, Brandon Routh, imdb.com

“You are not my enemy. You are my freedom. You are my white knight. You are my challenger, my push to greatness, my savior. I was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see.”

— Shonda Rhimes, Tony Goldwyn, Heather Mitchell, Mellie Grant, Bellamy Young, imdb.com

“Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“‘The One’ is one of the pure attributes of this God of Power and Greatness, one of His happy names. Who are you and what is your word? These are the words of Truth, spoken from wisdom. In other words, these point toward the great ones. Yes, it also exists, but which one is yours? I speak from my sta…”

— Shams Tabrizi, sufism.org

“The test of greatness as applied to a political leader is the success of his plans and his enterprises, which means his ability to reach the goal for which he sets out; whereas the final goal set up by the political philosopher can never be reached; for human thought may grasp truths and picture end…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.”

— Sherry Argov, amazon.com

“Greatness is demonstrating humility in all aspects of life. If you can't reach back, you will never move forward.”

— Eric Thomas, twitter.com

“The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.”

— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com

“What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.”

— Bill Russell, sportsfeelgoodstories.com

“I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?”

— Emmitt Smith, successories.com

“Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.”

— Ray Lewis, books.google.com

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.”

— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org

“The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.”

— Herodotus, amazon.com

“I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.”

— John Ruskin, amazon.com

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com