Greatness Quotes

1. Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. - John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

2. Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. – George Bernard Shaw

3. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. - Zig Ziglar

4. No Horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No Steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

5. How many times a day, a week, a month, do we have the opportunity to be great through simple acts of kindness? In your dash, never underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, or an honest compliment. All have the potential to turn a life around. - Linda Ellis

6. A great mind is one that is neither ancient nor modern; it is neither ashamed of the old nor afraid of the new. It thinks neither in terms of old traditions nor in terms of new fashions. It is only concerned with the true and the workable. - N. Eldon Tanner

7. He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things. - C. Simmons

8. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. - Leo Tolstoy

9. You were born to greatness. Having a life mission implies that that world has need of you. In fact, the world has been preparing you to fill this need with one incredible life experience after another. Finding and fulfilling your potential will lead you to your highest experience in this life. Believe it, you have a mission. It is the gateway to your personal greatness. - Greg Anderson

10. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

11. Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True greatness is not always tied to the scope of our tasks, but to the quality of how we carry out our tasks whatever they are. In that attitude, let us give our time, ourselves, and our talents to the things that really matter now, things which will still matter a thousand years from now. - Spencer W. Kimball

12. The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. - Samuel Smiles

13. Down deep in every soul there is a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring… If you are willing, great things are possible to you. - Grenville Kleiser

14. Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph

15. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. - Amelia Barr

16. Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character. - William Arthur Ward

17. Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. - Mengzi Meng-tse

18. Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph

19. They’re only truly great who are truly good. - George Chapman

20. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

22. 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. - Mark Twain