Quotes on Greatness

You only need a heart full of grace

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted - folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

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

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.