Quotes about Greatness

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

I choose not to remain at good today, but rather to answer the call to greatness.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God—that is, if you are human—your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.