Greatness Quotes

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
Paul Tsongas

Leadership, America, Face

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Lionel Richie

Home, Fear, Fight

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
David Limbaugh

America, President, Lead

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.
Timbaland

Down, Minute, Lay

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
William C. Bryant

Strength, Children, Her

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
Elton Gallegly

Strong, America, Grateful

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Jane Porter

Truth, Understand, Capable

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall

Power, Fear, Confused

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Brain, Country, Big

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
Peabo Bryson

Small, Between, Line

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
John Astin

Change, Human, Humanity

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius

Men, Father, Cannot

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
William Shirley

Alone, Human, Words

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
Jones Very

Made, Thoughts, Until

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
Hans Frank

Everything, Country, Victory

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell

Between, Often, Individual

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!
Robert Ley

Faith, Good, God

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Knowledge, Science, Spiritual

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
Sean Astin

Nothing, Special, Watching

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

Friendship, Men, Blessing

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

End, Means, High

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Frank Dane

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
Keith Olbermann

Care, Everything, Win

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
Sonny Perdue

Nothing, Less, Within

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

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.
Sonny Perdue

State, Journey, Follow

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?
Rick Santelli

Society, America, Energy

I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
Ben Quayle

History, Country, Wrong

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

Knew, Moments, Duplicate

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
Soulja Boy

History, Making, Headed

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