Greatness Quotes

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

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

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

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.

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

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.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

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.

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.

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.