Greatness Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Great, Born, Achieve

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nation, Judged, Treated

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Children, Laugh

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw

Happiness, May, Done

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

Great, Beautiful, Mind

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Age, Human, Able

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

Black, Rather, National

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.
Ayn Rand

Waiting, Yourself, Here

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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Horace Mann

Truth, Find, Both

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran

Poverty, Face, Mask

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
Michael Jordan

Process, Changes, Era

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

Failure, Another, Afraid

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn

Great, Joy, Service

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.
Robert Kennedy

Change, Work, History

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

Good, True, Forget

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

Able, Lies, Criticism

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe

Great, Himself, Attain

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.
Barack Obama

Power, Simple, Made

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strength, Strong, Greatest

I always knew I was destined for greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Mitt Romney

Understand, America, Sometimes

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville

America, Her, Rather

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Road, Rough, Heights

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

Power, Thought, Lies

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.
Wilma Rudolph

Dreams, Power, Human

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.
James F. Cooper

Character, Him, Around

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.
Victor Hugo

Country, Determined, Numbers

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

Done, Ability, Needed

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Him, Cannot, Quite

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