Explore Quotes on Greatness

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

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

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.