Quotes about Greatness

Spiritual greatness has nothing to do with being greater than others. It has everything to do with being as great as each of us can be. True sanctity is precisely drinking our own cup and trusting that by thus fully claiming our own, irreplaceable journey, we can become a source of hope for many.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

They were great in their day and generation.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.