Greatness Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I always knew I was destined for 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.

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

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.

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.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

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.