Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
~By Charles Simmons ~
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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.
~By Vincente Fox ~
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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 ~
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
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 ~
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
~By Peter S. Beagle ~
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~By Edmund Burke ~
There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
~By Jack Scalia ~
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
~By Charles Simmons ~
I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
~By Henry Fielding ~
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.
~By Maimonides ~
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.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
~By Nahum Tate ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Jones Very ~
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 ~
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
~By Hans Magnus Enzensberger ~
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
~By Jose Marti ~
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
~By Matthew Henry ~
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
~By John Webster ~
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.
~By Amelia E. Barr ~
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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 ~
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
~By William Shirley ~
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 ~
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
The only greatness for man is immortality.
~By James Dean ~
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
~By Jean Rostand ~
I believe in the greatness of our people.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
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 ~
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
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.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
~By Tecumseh ~
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
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 ~
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
~By Walter Scott ~
Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
~By William Cobbett ~
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
~By David Brainerd ~
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 ~
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
~By Simone Weil ~
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
~By Lee Strasberg ~
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.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
~By Max Lerner ~
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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
France cannot be France without greatness.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
~By Lester Maddox ~
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~By Aristotle ~
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
~By Philip Guedalla ~
I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.
~By Demi Moore ~
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 ~
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 ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
~By R. W. Apple, Jr. ~
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 a melancholy that stems from greatness.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
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.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
~By John W. Gardner ~
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
~By Charles Kendall Adams ~
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
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.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
~By Horace Mann ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
~By Jane Porter ~
You are watching what greatness, is all about.
~By Brent Musburger ~
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
~By Dorothy Height ~
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.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
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 ~
Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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