Greatness Quotes

Only great men have great faults.

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

Great men are sincere.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

All great men are partially inspired.

Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.

How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

America is the greatest country in the world.

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.