Greatness Quotes

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth, Simplicity, Goodness

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Mind, Sign

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks

Nature, Yourself, True

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God, True, Security

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good, Mind, Turn

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
Danica Patrick

Best, Learning, Moving

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Small, Become, Minds

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Live, Die, Achieve

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Himself, Knows

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush Limbaugh

History, Greatest, Human

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

Woman, She, Goals

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Great, Public, Born

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward

Love, Peace, Hope

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Joseph Addison

Country, Heaven, Thunder

The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson

Help, Nothing, Desire

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art, Find, Unique

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

Makes, Goodness, Truly

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Tecumseh

Dreams, End, Die

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

Life, Best, Human

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

Freedom, America, Free

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
John W. Gardner

Few, Excellence, Thrust

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller

Blame, Guilt, Fortune

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt

Great, History, Test

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams

Success, Him, Student

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Les Brown

Journey, Remain, Focused

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

Character, Develop, Constant

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
Mason Cooley

Soul, Ambition, Aim

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift

Morning, Knew, Late

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