Greatness Quotes

I believe in the greatness of our people.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 always knew I was destined for greatness.

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 line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

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

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.