Greatness
363 quotes: 64 by Keith Craft, 299 from other voices.
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- I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
- I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
- I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
- I don’t tell people they’re okay the way they are. No, I say you could be way more than you are.
- I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
- I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and that you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do things that no number of average people could do.
- I had rather be first here than second in Rome.Julius CaesarCommonly attributed
- I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labor and diligence.
- I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
- If a great thing can be done at all, it can be done easily; but it is in that kind of ease with which a tree blossoms after long years of gathered strength.
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.Horace MannSourced
- If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- If you can get through things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness.
- If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
- If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
- If you wish to raise a lofty edifice of perfection, take humility for a foundation.
- In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.John RuskinSourced
- In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one were never to die.
- It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
- It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we must measure a great man.
- It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
- It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
- It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.
- Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
- Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are, in Philadelphia, now.
- Let him who would write heroic poems make his life a heroic poem.
- Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
- Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.
- Life is too short to be little
- Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
- Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.
- Man is made great or little by his own will.
- Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success and endowed with seeds of greatness.
- Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
- Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.Horace WalpoleSourced
- Men hold themselves cheap and vile: and yet a man is a fagot of thunderbolts.
- Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.