Men like Sunil Dutt should not be mourned, only envied for their greatness.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.
The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted - folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.
Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.
Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
