Greatness Quotes

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Great men should not have great faults.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?

You need a strong, tough leader to restore America's greatness. This is the best person to do that.

I truly believe that America's greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn't treat us fairly.

I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

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.

Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness.

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.