4,405 Quotes About Greatness

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.