Quotes about Greatness

Be the greatest thing that has ever happened to you.

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great.

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people — a black people — who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.

Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

I bow to Jesus in gratitude, and I say, 'Oh Lord, you are great.' It touches me, and it lifts me up because I am hungry for more.

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.