Greatness Quotes

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr

Faith, God, Fear

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil

Work, True, Lies

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga

Deep, Single, Big

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Wisdom, Happy, Mind

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann

Truth, Forget, Him

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
Allen West

Country, America, Equal

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott

Drinking, Vices

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

Bottom, Despise, Ascent

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Jean de La Fontaine

Happy, Wealth, Neither

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan

Leadership, Humanity, Put

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
Marco Rubio

History, Society, Today

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti

Men, Famous, Talk

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
Rick Perry

Government, America, Minds

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver

Great, Wrong, Honor

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

Great, Ignorance, May

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia

Change, Beauty, Men

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne

Nature, Good, Jealousy

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth

Power, Surrender, Measure

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

Means, Goodness, Ends

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole

Same, Illusions, Grandeur

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

Mind, Soul, Cannot

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons

Love, Men, True

France cannot be France without greatness.
Charles de Gaulle

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad

Work, Great, Men

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
Abu Bakr

Away, Run, Follow

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Titus Livius

Humble, Since, Beginnings

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson

Down, Measure, Mansion

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack

Famous, Before, Modern

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
Ron Fournier

Movies, Leaders, Goes

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