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Greatness Quotes
Greatness quotes look at our potential to do or be something or someone who can make a positive difference in the world. You are great. I am great. Let’s all be great together by living with passion and purpose and expressing our full potential. Worry less about others’ approval and more about moving confidently in the direction of your dreams. Greatness is your destiny!
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
Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. Cher
He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair. I Ching
The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Albert Diderot
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. Benjamin Disraeli
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that spirit has found celebration through them. Wayne Dyer
Creativity means believing you have greatness. Wayne Dyer
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shall not remain insignificant. I shall work in the world for mankind…I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living, even after my death. Anne Frank
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. Martha Graham
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man. Hafiz
The great thing about the dilemma we’re in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do…There isn’t a single thing that doesn’t require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world. Paul Hawken
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. Friedrich Hebbel
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. Dorothy Height
I can’t believe God put us on this earth to be ordinary. Lou Holtz
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. Robert F. Kennedy
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. Mencius
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Greek Proverb
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. Jim Rohn
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
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Joe Sabah
Great beings come in all shapes and forms. They inspire us to live a noble life. J. D. Salinger
All great things have small beginnings. Peter Senge
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy
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 be great. Mark Twain
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. Voltaire
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. Marianne Williamson
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days til they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. Woodrow Wilson
You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself when you forget that errand. Woodrow Wilson
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey
I always knew I was destined for greatness. Oprah Winfrey
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