No, our greatness does not come from our government.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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 ~
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
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 ~
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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 ~
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 ~
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
~By John W. Gardner ~
I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.
~By Demi Moore ~
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 ~
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
~By Frank Dane ~
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
~By Elgin Baylor ~
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 ~
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 ~
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
~By Charles Simmons ~
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 ~
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
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 ~
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
~By Ian Williams ~
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~By Aristotle ~
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
~By Lester Maddox ~
I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
~By Stanislaw Lem ~
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
~By George Chapman ~
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By James Buchanan ~
The only greatness for man is immortality.
~By James Dean ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
France cannot be France without greatness.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
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 ~
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
~By Hans Magnus Enzensberger ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
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 ~
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
~By Meir Kahane ~
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
~By Walter Scott ~
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
~By William Shirley ~
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
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 ~
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
~By Athenaeus ~
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
~By Stewart Udall ~
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
~By William Allen White ~
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
~By William Booth ~
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 ~
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
~By John McGraw ~
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.
~By Lawrence Clark Powell ~
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
~By Philip Guedalla ~
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
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 ~
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
~By Jose Marti ~
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
~By David Brainerd ~
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By John Buchan ~
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
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 ~
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 ~
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
~By Lee Strasberg ~
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 ~
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