Quotes about Greatness
Ich bin eins mit dem Universum. Das Universum ist großartig, und ich bin es auch.
— Jen Sincero
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
— James Faust
The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.
— Meghan McCain
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
— Phillips Brooks
In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.
— Phillips Brooks
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.
— Pope Benedict XVI
To be great is to be misunderstood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson