Greatness Quotes
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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
The biggest dog has been a pup. (Quote by - Joaquin Miller)
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. (Quote by - Meir Kahane)
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
True greatness consists in being great in little things. (Quote by - Charles Simmons)
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. (Quote by - James Smithson)
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. (Quote by - John Webster)
You are watching what greatness, is all about. (Quote by - Brent Musburger)
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
I believe in the greatness of our people. (Quote by - Chen Shui-bian)
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
President Reagan is now at rest We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness. (Quote by - Elton Gallegly)
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. (Quote by - Amelia E Barr)
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently. (Quote by - Ian Williams)
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. (Quote by - Ernst Fischer)
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. (Quote by - John W Gardner)
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp. (Quote by - Sonny Perdue)
Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)
Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness He blends together the profound politician with the scholar. (Quote by - William Pierce)
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you. (Quote by - T. Alan Armstrong)
Just do what must be don This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. (Quote by - Gustav Stresemann)
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve They are only partially living or at best living a partial life Every human being has the potential for greatness. (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour. (Quote by - Stephen Spender)
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate Action is the dignity of greatness. (Quote by - Jose Marti)
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand. (Quote by - Gerald Stanley Lee)
None think the great unhappy, but the great. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Ajax the great Himself a host. (Quote by - Homer)
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness. (Quote by - Bill McCartney)
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness. (Quote by - Franco Harris)
Integrity is the first step to true greatness Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. (Quote by - Charles Simmons)
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. (Quote by - Wilma Rudolph)
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. (Quote by - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle)
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him, indeed they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. (Quote by - Jane Porter)
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately. (Quote by - Frank Dane)
A great man is always willing to be little. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. (Quote by - Charles Rollin)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment. (Quote by - Paul Tsongas)
No man ever yet became great by imitation. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)
There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know. (Quote by - Jack Scalia)
A white wall is the fool's paper. (Quote by - French proverb)
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. (Quote by - Lactantius)
France cannot be France without greatness. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
It is strange I see all the privileges and greatness of the future It already looks grand, beautiful Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully. (Quote by - Thomas Starr King)
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges. (Quote by - Thomas W. Higginson)
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
All great men come out of the middle classes. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)
No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club One which bunches two pennants is a good club But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. (Quote by - John McGraw)
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. (Quote by - R. H. Tawney)
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. (Quote by - Charles Kendall Adams)
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. (Quote by - John Buchan)
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime The test of greatness is the page of history. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
No man was ever great without divine inspiration. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt, (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. (Quote by - Athenaeus)
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. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness. (Quote by - Paul Tsongas)
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. (Quote by - James Bryant Conant)
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. (Quote by - J. C. and A . W. Hare)
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. (Quote by - Grenville Kleiser)
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
Calmness is always Godlike. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. (Quote by - Nelson Boswell)
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. (Quote by - Stephen Vizinczey)
I always knew I was destined for greatness. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
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. (Quote by - Steve Case)
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. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
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. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness. (Quote by - Sanford I Weill)
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. (Quote by - John Drinkwater)
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. (Quote by - David Brainerd)
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. (Quote by - George Chapman)
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Some people have greatness thrust upon the Very few have excellence thrust upon them. (Quote by - John W Gardner)
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth But I am optimistic I believe that we can change; we must change As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be. (Quote by - John Astin)
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it (Quote by - Joshua Reynolds)
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. (Quote by - William Henry Hudson)
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. (Quote by - Max Lerner)
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. (Quote by - Tecumseh)
To be simple is to be great (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. (Quote by - Harry Gray)
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. (Quote by - Nicolas Chamfort)
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
A great ship asks deep water. (Quote by - George Herbert)
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. (Quote by - William Cobbett)
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
No, our greatness does not come from our government. (Quote by - Sonny Perdue)
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise (Quote by - Max Stirner)
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. (Quote by - Robert Kennedy)
I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness. (Quote by - Demi Moore)
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. (Quote by - Peter S Beagle)
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say. (Quote by - Henry Fonda)
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. (Quote by - Jim Ramstad)
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit. (Quote by - William Shirley)
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. (Quote by - Rudolf Otto)
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. (Quote by - Peabo Bryson)
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents. (Quote by - R W Apple, Jr)
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound. (Quote by - Archibald Alexander)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. (Quote by - Nahum Tate)
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?Lee Strasberg)
Responsibility is the price of greatness. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. (Quote by - Greek Proverb)
Only great men may have great faults. (Quote by - French proverb)
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. (Quote by - Fred Hoyle)
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away. (Quote by - Guy Finley)
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. (Quote by - Lawrence Clark Powell)
I believe in the greatness of our democracy. (Quote by - Chen Shui-bian)
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. (Quote by - Charles Reade)
There is no such thing as a little country The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
To be great is to be misunderstood. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. (Quote by - Alfred Victor Vigny)
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. (Quote by - William C Bryant)
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Greatness is a spiritual condition. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. (Quote by - French proverb)
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain. (Quote by - Herbert Asquith)
Great and good are seldom the same man. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country. (Quote by - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. (Quote by - Buck Rodgers)
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. (Quote by - William Booth)
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. (Quote by - William Allen White)
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?Sean Hannity)
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. (Quote by - Gustav Stresemann)
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched A tree does not know itself to be wretched. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. (Quote by - Richard Knolles)
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Do not trust people They are capable of greatness. (Quote by - Stanislaw Lem)
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? (Quote by - Kanye West)
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. (Quote by - Josi Ortega y Gasset)
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Few great men could pass Personnel. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!Robert Ley)
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. (Quote by - Jones Very)
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination Yes, sir Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. (Quote by - Lester Maddox)
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. (Quote by - Dorothy Height)
In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement. (Quote by - Hans Frank)
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. (Quote by - Minoru Yamasaki)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Quote by - Daniel J Boorstin)
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. (Quote by - Margaret Chase Smith)
If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds. (Quote by - Bonar Law)
Think like a queen A queen is not afraid to fail Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. (Quote by - Titus Livius)
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. (Quote by - John Cusack)
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success (Quote by - Philip Guedalla)
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Quote by - Stewart Udall)
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
The world knows nothing of its greatest men. (Quote by - Henry Taylor)
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it Pride reinforces love. (Quote by - Margaret Truman)
The only greatness for man is immortality. (Quote by - James Dean)
For he that once is good, is ever great. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. (Quote by - Maimonides)
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. (Quote by - Elgin Baylor)
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!Joseph Addison)
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. (Quote by - Julia Margaret Cameron)
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. (Quote by - James F Cooper)
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. (Quote by - Alexander the Great)
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. (Quote by - James Robinson)
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. (Quote by - Vincente Fox)
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. (Quote by - Zadok Rabinwitz)
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. (Quote by - Les Brown)
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. (Quote by - Richard Le Gallienne)
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised Greatness is not needed. (Quote by - Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The banalities of a great man pass for wit. (Quote by - Alexander Chase)
The greatest man in history was the poorest (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy. (Quote by - Jean de La Fontaine)
Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement. (Quote by - Debbie Stabenow)
