Greatness Quotes

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.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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.

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.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

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.

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.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

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

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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.

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.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

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.