Greatness Quotes

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness.

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.

Greatness is not how you feel, it's how you make others feel.

Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.

Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

Donald Trump doesn't pose a single threat to the greatness of America.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Great offices will have great talents.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness

Greatness is the reward for genius... only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.