I leave you the best phrases of greatness from great thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann, William Shakespeare, Mahatma Gandhi, Oscar Wilde or Fyodor Dostoevsky.
You may also be interested in these quotes about humility.
-The price of greatness is responsibility. -Winston Churchill.
-Don't look for greatness, look for the truth and you will find both. -Horace Mann.
-True greatness lies in being kind, true wisdom lies in a happy mind. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
-What greatness does is start something that will survive after you. -Ralph Washington Sockman.
-Greatness inspires envy, envy breeds resentment, resentment produces lies. -JK Rowling.
-If you want to see the real greatness of a man, observe the way he treats his inferiors, not his equals. -JK Rowling.
- Madness and greatness are just two sides of the same coin. -George RR Martin.
-Greatness is never free; must be earned. -Barack Obama.
-The final test of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. -Elbert Hubbard.
-Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
-The potential for greatness lives within each of us. -Wilma Rudolph.
-Don't despise the lower rungs in the ascent to greatness. -Publilius Syrus.
-It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. -Edmund Burke.
-Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. -Albert Camus.
-True greatness consists in being great in small things. -Charles Simmons.
-I fear that we confuse power with greatness. -Stewart Udall.
-The greatness of man lies in his power of thought. -Blaise Pascal.
-A man who seeks greatness does not feel small desires. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-It is the nature of man to rise to greatness, if greatness is what is expected of him. -John Steinbeck.
-Just do what needs to be done. This may not be happy, but it is greatness. -George Bernard Shaw.
-Whoever serves the majority stands on the line of greatness: great wealth, great profit, great satisfaction, great reputation and great joy. -Jim Rohn.
-Don't be afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness, some greatness is imposed on them and others greatness is great. -William Shakespeare.
-The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-The abuse of greatness is when remorse is dissociated from power. -William Shakespeare.
-Suffering becomes beautiful when someone endures great calamities with joy, not through insensitivity, but through the greatness of the mind. -Aristotle.
-Nothing is simpler than greatness, in fact, being simple is being great. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-The only thing that is between greatness and me, is me. -Woody Allen.
-The greatness of man consists in his ability to do and in the correct application of his powers to the things that need to be done. -Frederick Douglass.
-Keep me away from the wisdom that doesn't cry, the philosophy that doesn't laugh, and the greatness that doesn't bow to children. -Khalil Gibran.
-Few will have the greatness to bend our own story, but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events. -Robert Kennedy.
-That's the teaching of the well: sometimes you have to hit bottom to understand the greatness of the sky. -Francesc Miralles.
-The true human greatness is in the practice of goodness without conditions, in the ability to give to those who have nothing, but not what we have left over, but a part of what little we have. -Leonardo Padura.
"I must not adorn such manifest grandeur with superfluous words." -Edmondo de Amicis.
-The greater the greatness of a love, the longer the suffering is when it ends. -Federico Moccia.
-It is compassion, not fear, that creates harmony in most races, and it is harmony, the union to achieve shared goals, that precedes greatness. -RA Salvatore.
-The mission to find and destroy our own ego brings us closer to greatness. -Yehuda Berg.
-That greatness requires suffering has been a difficult lesson to learn. -Kristin Cashore.
-A great man shows his greatness in the way he treats someone smaller. The value you place on people determines whether you are a motivator or a manipulator. -Zig Ziglar.
-Forget about greatness, look for smallness. Trust more and brag less. Make many requests and accept all gifts. -Max Lucado.
-We all fail sometime. It is not about choosing between failure and success, but about choosing risk and aspiring to greatness or not taking any risk and ensuring mediocrity. -Keith Ferrazzi.
-The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete and everything after you bears your mark. -Dave Chappelle.
-If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it? -Lee Strasberg.
61-Greatness breaks the laws. -Louise Berliawsky Nevelson.
-When greatness descends from its high pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. -Louise Colet.
-A man does not show his greatness by being at one extreme, but rather by touching both at the same time. -Blaise Pascal.
-The line between greatness and darkness is very, very small. -Peabo Bryson.
-It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant. -Henry Ward Beecher.
-Greatness is its own torment. -Theodore Parker.