Quotes about Greatness

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Kebanyakan orang mengatakan bahwa kecerdasanlah yang melahirkan seorang ilmuwan besar. Mereka salah, karakterlah yang melahirkannya.

Greatness is nothing more nor less than the harmonious functioning of the faculties of the head and heart; the shorter the neck, the more closely these two organs approach one another; argal…It was convincing.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light a fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.1

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.