Greatness Quotes

Why do you not succeed in doing good? It's because you do not pray enough.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to hold [your dreams] up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

This one step - choosing a goal and staying to it - changes everything.

O Jesus, Your little bird is happy to be weak and little. What would become of it if it were big? Never would it have the boldness to appear in Your presence, to fall asleep in front of You.

I don't want to be famous or popular or known for anything other than that I was deep and wise and had a soul that was wildly beautiful, full of mercy and light.

Every breath I draw this day, every beating of my heart, every step I take, every word I say, every movement of my body and mind I wish to be an act of love for Thee such as Thy Blessed Mother herself performed.

Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.

Great souls pay much attention to little things.

Be great in little things.

I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

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

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

When it’s darkest, men see the stars.

You already possess everything necessary to become great.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

If you are playing for greatness, you gotta get yo’ a-- up.

If you are playing for greatness, you gotta get yo’ a-- up.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore.

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.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.