Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
Sanford I. Weill

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Sean Hannity

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
Peter S. Beagle

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John Drinkwater

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
Margaret Chase Smith

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla

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

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
James Robinson

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
Franco Harris

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Henry Fielding