Greatness Quotes

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

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.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

I believe in the greatness of our people.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?