That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
Lester Maddox

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

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

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

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

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

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

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

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

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

The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

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

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan

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

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

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