(1462 quotes found)
“True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others”
Voltaire
“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
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
Ayn Rand
“There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.”
Anthony Robbins
“Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare
“All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
Seneca
“If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.”
Cavett Robert
“The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness”
Marcus Garvey