Pastoral Resources

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.