Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
I believe in the greatness of our people.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
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 ~
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
~By William Allen White ~
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
~By John Cusack ~
No, our greatness does not come from our government.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
~By Les Brown ~
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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 ~
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
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 ~
Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
~By Titus Livius ~
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
~By William Booth ~
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 ~
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
The only greatness for man is immortality.
~By James Dean ~
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
~By Charles Simmons ~
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By James Buchanan ~
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 ~
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 ~
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
~By Philip Guedalla ~
Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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 ~
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
~By Jose Marti ~
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
~By Tecumseh ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
~By Nahum Tate ~
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 ~
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 ~
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.
~By Demi Moore ~
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 ~
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 ~
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
~By Peter S. Beagle ~
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
~By Frank Dane ~
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 ~
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
~By Walter Scott ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
~By Jean Rostand ~
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
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 ~
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
~By Stewart Udall ~
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 ~
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
~By Elgin Baylor ~
Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.
~By William Pierce ~
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 truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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 ~
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
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 ~
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 ~
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
~By George Chapman ~
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 ~
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
~By Lester Maddox ~
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 ~
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 ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
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 ~
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