Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~By William Shakespeare ~
In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
~By Hans Frank ~
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
~By William Booth ~
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
~By William Shirley ~
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
~By Philip Guedalla ~
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
~By Titus Livius ~
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
~By Les Brown ~
I believe in the greatness of our people.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
~By James Smithson ~
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
~By David Brainerd ~
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
The only greatness for man is immortality.
~By James Dean ~
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
~By Walter Scott ~
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.
~By Margaret Truman ~
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
~By Stanislaw Lem ~
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.
~By Ayn Rand ~
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
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.
~By Julia Margaret Cameron ~
Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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.
~By Barack Obama ~
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
~By George Chapman ~
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.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
~By John Drinkwater ~
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
~By Jim Rohn ~
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
France cannot be France without greatness.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
~By William C. Bryant ~
I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
~By Athenaeus ~
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
~By Margaret Chase Smith ~
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
~By Abu Bakr ~
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
~By Elgin Baylor ~
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.
~By Ben Quayle ~
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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.
~By Allen West ~
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
~By Jean Rostand ~
It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
~By Thomas Starr King ~
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.
~By Noel Coward ~
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
~By Sean Hannity ~
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
~By Hans Magnus Enzensberger ~
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
~By Joseph Addison ~
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.
~By Lady Gaga ~
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
~By James Robinson ~
President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
~By R. W. Apple, Jr. ~
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
~By Matthew Henry ~
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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!
~By Robert Ley ~
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
~By John W. Gardner ~
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
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.
~By Lactantius ~
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
~By Henry Fonda ~
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
~By Tecumseh ~
No, our greatness does not come from our government.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
You are watching what greatness, is all about.
~By Brent Musburger ~
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.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~By Aristotle ~
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
~By Simone Weil ~
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.
~By Archibald Alexander ~
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
~By John Astin ~
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
~By John W. Gardner ~
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.
~By James F. Cooper ~
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.
~By Steve Case ~
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