Quotes about Greatness
When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.When success knocks on your door, answer it.When greatness knocks on your door, seize it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
- Frederick Douglass
Thus, there is a hidden grandeur in the most ordinary things. St. Josemaria saw this, and he had little patience for those would-be saints with romantic inclinations who saw ordinary life as merely an obstacle to true greatness.
- Scott Hahn
And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and
- John Calvin
But not by habits of war nor by open magnanimity, but he shall grow great by fraudulent and clandestine arts; because he was on the one hand most impious, and on the other, of a servile disposition, as we have formerly said.
- John Calvin
Nature's great masterpiece, an Elephant, the only harmless great thing; the giant of beasts.
- John Donne
God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.
- Max Lucado
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.
- Graham Cooke
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- George Bernard Shaw
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
- Jim Rohn
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
- Pope Benedict XVI