Greatness
363 quotes: 64 by Keith Craft, 299 from other voices.
Other voices on Greatness
- Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.William HazlittCommonly attributed
- Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.
- Genius … means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.Thomas CarlyleSourced
- God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
- Good is the enemy of great.
- Good is the enemy of great. That’s why so few things become great.
- Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the inspiration of everything great. Without it, no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
- Great ideas, great men, and great events, cannot be measured by the magnitude of their cradles.
- Great men are like meteors, which shine and consume themselves to enlighten the earth.
- Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
- Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
- Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
- Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy.
- Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
- Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert EinsteinSourced
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
- Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work.
- Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become
- Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
- Greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.
- Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.
- Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
- Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
- Greatness, it’s a choice. It’s not your destiny.
- Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the using of strength.Henry Ward BeecherCommonly attributed
- Greatness may be present in lives whose range is very small.Phillips BrooksCommonly attributed
- Greatness of life emanates from greatness of thought.
- He is a great man who has a great plan to his life — the greatest who has the greatest plan and keeps it.
- He is great enough that is his own master.
- He is great who speaks great, greater who thinks great, and greatest who lives great.
- He who ceases to grow greater grows smaller.
- He who overcomes others is strong, but he who overcomes himself is mightier still.
- Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
- High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
- Honesty is not only “the first step toward greatness,” – it is greatness itself.
- Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
- Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.