Greatness is a concept of a state of superiority affecting a person or object in a particular place or area. Inspirational greatness quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Most Famous Greatness Quotes
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. – Bob Marley
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. – James E. Faust
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
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, Self Reliance
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds – Albert Einstein
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. – Judy Garland
A great man is always willing to be little. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . – Mario Puzo
The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel. – Zig Ziglar
Creativity means believing you have greatness. – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. – William F. Halsey
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions – Benjamin Disreali
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things – Lawrence D. Bell
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. – Elbert Hubbard
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way – Martin Luther King Jr.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. – Vince Lombardi
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. – Zig Ziglar
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey
Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. – Martin Luther King Jr.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert Kennedy
The first step toward greatness is to be honest. – Proverb
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. – Hebbel
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you. – T. Alan Armstrong
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. – Anne Frank
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. – Charles de Montesquieu
Be good and you will be lonely. – Mark Twain
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness. – George Bernard Shaw
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. – Wilma Rudolph
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. – Friedrich Schiller
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. – Edmund Hillary
I want to go out and chase greatness. That’s all I want to do. – J. J. Watt
Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. – Aristotle
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. – Mary Kay Ash
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. – Theodore Roosevelt
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. – Dorothy Height
Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness. – Bill McCartney
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it? – Lee Strasberg
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. – Zig Ziglar
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. – Maximillian Degenerez
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. – Khalil Gibran
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. – Charles R. Swindoll
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt
