Quotes about Greatness
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
— Herman Melville
Don't just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.
— Robert Kiyosaki
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
— Mark Twain
Are you seeking great things for yourself, instead of seeking to be a great person? God wants you to be in a much closer relationship with Himself than simply receiving His gifts—He wants you to get to know Him. Even some large thing we want is only incidental; it comes and it goes. But God never gives us anything incidental. There is nothing easier than getting into the right relationship with God, unless it is not God you seek, but only what He can give you.
— Oswald Chambers
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
— Walt Whitman
I have chosen you." Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God, but that He has got you.
— Oswald Chambers
Jesus called them together and said, "You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." —Mark 10: 42—45
— Mike Breen
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
How great You are, My God! You are beyond my understanding! The number of Your years is past finding out. You draw up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. Who can understand how You spread out the clouds, how You thunder from Your pavilion? (Job 36:26—29)
— Beth Moore
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.
— Ecclesiastes 2:9