Greatness Quotes

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold

Spiritual, Condition

Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer

Money, Care, Help

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Country, Eyes, Voices

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Peace, Justice, America

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

Beauty, Nature, God

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

Country, Why, Anyone

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.
Jon Landau

Great, Control, Through

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
Meir Kahane

Understand, Ourselves, Profane

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

Goodness, Consist

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
Frank Ocean

Art, Yourself, Trying

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett

Him, Makes, Means

Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
Debbie Stabenow

Life, Hard, After

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James Anthony Froude

Self, Neglect, Essence

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, Events

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
Jim Ramstad

Life, America, Both

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.
Steve Case

Past, Passion, Special

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
David Brainerd

Worse, Flow, Sensual

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
Vincente Fox

Human, Between, Serve

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
Rene Redzepi

Home, Food, Experience

I believe in the greatness of our people.
Chen Shui-bian

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
Chen Shui-bian

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann

Father, Him, Old

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
Gustav Stresemann

Old, Her, Subject

I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.
Angela Lansbury

Best, Book, Opinion

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

Great, Business, Point

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.
Darrell Issa

Remember, America, Making

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

Free, Worthy, Spirits

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster

Care, After, Follow

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner

Human, Himself, Hear

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
Paul Tsongas

Destiny, Return

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