Greatness Quotes
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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.
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
Spaghetti is good with ranch, and spaghetti is good with sugar. You put all of that together and make a sandwich out of it and you get greatness. People shouldn't judge unless they try it.
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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!
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.