6,436 Quotes About Great

Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.

5. That people do not believe in you or in your ideas does not necessary mean that you are not good or that your ideas are not good enough. The problem is not with you but with them. For every great invention, we have today encountered this opposition. If you, therefore want to be great you must learn not to live your life based on the opinion of others but on your convictions.

If you become too readily available to people, they begin to take you for granted; pull away, and they will clamor for you. It's a subconscious thing our society has created in the minds of the masses. This is why most of the "greats" didn't become recognized until after their death. If you're overlook, rejoice, maybe your one of the future greats.

A great person or thing does not gain even a fraction of a single degree of greatness, when complimented; or lose it, when not complimented.

God is too great. Even technology cannot replace His greatness.

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

Too often, we thoughtlessly relegate things to the ever-dimming periphery of our lives, eventually jostling them off the edges to some ill-defined oblivion because we assume that we are done with them. The problem is, they may not be done with us.