Greatness Quotes

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.

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 your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

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

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.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

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.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

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.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.