Greatness Quotes

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.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

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!

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

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.

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.

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.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

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.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

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.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

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.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.