Greatness Quotes

"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity."

"When I'm finished doing music or whatever, I want people to remember me as just being great."

"Every great player is more outstanding in the victory, but has more pressure in defeats."

"Everything you can imagine from a player, Pele has done it."

"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God – this is the secret of greatness."

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

Leo Tolstoy

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."

Mencius

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."

Dorothy Height

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Learning gives creativity, creativity leads to thinking, thinking provides knowledge, knowledge makes you great."

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."

Leo Tolstoy

"Responsibility is the price of greatness."

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

Thomas Carlyle

"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve."

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

"A great man is always willing to be little."

"A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race."

Sarojini Naidu

“You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”