Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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

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

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

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
John McGraw

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
Phillips Brooks

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

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
Archibald Alexander

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks

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

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
Lawrence Clark Powell

No, our greatness does not come from our government.
Sonny Perdue

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

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
Ian Williams

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