A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
Rudolf Otto

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

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

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen

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.
John W. Gardner

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
Ernst Fischer

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

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
George Chapman

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
Bill McCartney

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Grenville Kleiser

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
William C. Bryant

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem

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.
Bo Bennett

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.
William Pierce

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

France cannot be France without greatness.
Charles de Gaulle