Quotes about Greatness

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "if a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The person who forgives is always greater than the one who is jealous and angry.

live. If you don't expect God to do anything great in your life, He won't.

Don't let being ordinary stop or hinder you from trying to do something great.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.