Greatness Quotes

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

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.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

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.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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.

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.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

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

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.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

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.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

You are watching what greatness is all about.

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.