Greatness
363 quotes: 64 by Keith Craft, 299 from other voices.
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- As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
- As to what we call the masses, and common men;--there are no common men.
- Attempt the great, pursue the great, and ultimately you will achieve the great.
- Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.Babe RuthSourced
- Be a little dog with a big dog attitude. Your attitude is the little thing that makes a big difference.
- Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
- Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
- Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven.Thomas BrowneCommonly attributed
- Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
- Censure is a tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
- Character is the diamond that scratches every other stone
- Commitment to great causes makes great men.
- Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
- Daring deeds dazzle history and are one of man’s great sources of light.
- Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.
- Do not despise the lowest steps in the ascent to greatness.
- To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.Henri-Frédéric AmielCommonly attributed
- Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
- Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSourced
- Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- Every man who can be a first-rate something - as every man can be who is a man at all - has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.J. G. HollandCommonly attributed
- Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
- Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.
- Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world.
- Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
- Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid.
- Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.
- Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
- Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.Phillips BrooksSourced
- For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- For there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work.
- Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
- Genius is nothing but continued attention.
- Genius is only great patience.
- Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
- Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
- Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.John FosterSourced