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 price of greatness is responsibility.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Be not afraid of greatness: 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 ~
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
~By Peter S. Beagle ~
France cannot be France without greatness.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
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 ~
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
~By R. W. Apple, Jr. ~
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 ~
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
~By Titus Livius ~
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
The only greatness for man is immortality.
~By James Dean ~
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 ~
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 ~
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~By William Shakespeare ~
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
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 ~
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
~By William Shirley ~
I believe in the greatness of our people.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
~By Jack Scalia ~
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 ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
~By George Chapman ~
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 ~
Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.
~By William Pierce ~
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 ~
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 ~
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
~By Lee Strasberg ~
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
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 ~
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
~By Stewart Udall ~
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
~By William Allen White ~
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 ~
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
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 ~
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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 man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
~By Nahum Tate ~
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 ~
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
~By Ian Williams ~
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By John Buchan ~
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
~By Franco Harris ~
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
~By Elgin Baylor ~
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
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 ~
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
~By William Booth ~
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
~By David Brainerd ~
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
~By Lester Maddox ~
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