Greatness Quotes

“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”

Ray Charles

"Good is the enemy of great."

Jim Collins

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

Vincent van Gogh

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon 'em."

"Great hopes make great men."

Thomas Fuller

"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown."

Charles de Gaulle

"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice."

Jim Collins

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

"Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting."

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges."

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"Great men can't be ruled."

Ayn Rand

"Great men are not born great, they grow great."

Mario Puzo

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."

"Greatness knows itself."

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

Dorothy Height

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve."

"Greatness is a spiritual condition."

Matthew Arnold

"All great men are gifted with intuition."

Alexis Carrel

"Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind."

Washington Allston

"Great men, like great epochs, are explosive material in whom tremendous energy has been accumulated."

"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”