Quotes on Greatness

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

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.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.

If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.