Orson Scott Card Quotes About Greatness

• Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Hope, Ambition

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.246, Macmillan

• Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Father, Valentine

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.393, Tor Science Fiction

• Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Opportunity, Greatness, Knowing

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.213, Macmillan

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