Quotes on Greatness

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

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

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.

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

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.