120 Quotes Tagged: greatness

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

When you succeed you party. When you fail you ponder. Greatness comes from pondering.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

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

Our country, which we do not
forsake for being un-great, that
we should find by being good.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.

[Epitaph, upon his instructions to erect a 'a plain die or cube ... surmounted by an Obelisk' with 'the following inscription, and not a word more…because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.' It omits that he had been President of the United States, a position of political power and prestige, and celebrates his involvement in the creation of the means of inspiration and instruction by which many human lives have been liberated from oppression and ignorance]

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?”

Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested,

“But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.”

“Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

Give yourself permission to envision a big life, a happy life. Accept your greatness. Don't settle! You didn't come here to play small or make someone else's dreams come true. You're meant for everything that's written in your heart, but it's up to you.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.