Quotes about Greatness
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people — a black people — who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
— Brother Lawrence
Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
— Zig Ziglar
I bow to Jesus in gratitude, and I say, 'Oh Lord, you are great.' It touches me, and it lifts me up because I am hungry for more.
— Reinhard Bonnke
The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.
— Oscar Wilde
Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
— Parker Palmer
Schopenhauer had said it years ago: "Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Dale Carnegie
Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.
— Dale Carnegie
The material universe is both an essential display of the greatness and goodness of God and the arena of the eternal life of finite spirits, including the human.
— Dallas Willard
In worship we are ascribing greatness, goodness, and glory to God.
— Dallas Willard
God is great enough that he can conduct his affairs in this way. His nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He would be a lesser God if he could not change his intentions when he thinks it is appropriate. And if he chooses to deal with humanity in such a way that he will occasionally think it appropriate, that is just fine.
— Dallas Willard
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
— William Hazlitt