Henry Steele Commager Quotes

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

Who's gonna dare to be great?

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

As long as we remain committed to holding high our individuals of supreme finish, others will be inspired to loose themselves of the gravity of the waywards and downtroddens.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Great hopes make great men.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

It is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individuals, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in the present; but it is an excellent thing to study the history of the great deeds of the past, and of the great men who did them, with an earnest desire to profit thereby so as to render better service in the present.

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if you believe that you are, then you're almost as good as being that.

I want to be great - in everything I do. As far as football, I always looked up to Kellen Moore of Boise State. I thought it was the coolest thing that he was the winningest QB of all time.

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

Being around greatness is always a thrill.

It can be 10 people or thousands of people: I want them to see something special. I want them to say, 'I saw the best in the world at something,' and maybe that will inspire them to go do something in their life with the same vigor.

We aspire to be like Jim Harbaugh. No, seriously, he does a great job.