Quotes About Greatness

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

Muhammad Ali

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.