Greatness Quotes

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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.

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.

France cannot be France without greatness.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

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

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

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.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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.

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

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.

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.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.