Greatness Quotes

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

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.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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.

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.

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.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

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.

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.