More quotations tagged with “greatness”
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.
—Vivienne de Watteville
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
—Stewart Udall
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
—Mencius
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
—Veronica Roth in Allegiant
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
—Daniel J. Boorstin