Greatness Quotes

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
Eduardo Galeano

Help, Trying, Small

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

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
Franco Harris

Great, Through, Team

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
Fran Tarkenton

Good, Great, Team

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
Fran Tarkenton

Business, America, Free

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
Henry Fonda

Him, Fact, Anyone

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla

Success, Great, Often

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
Julia Margaret Cameron

Men, Before, Soul

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

Leadership, Humanity, Put

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
Jack Scalia

Today, Country, Kids

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Stephen Vizinczey

Eyes, Tragedy, Close

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. Apple, Jr.

Success, War, Presidents

When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.
Lewis Hamilton

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.
Jaleel White

Career, Big, Next

You are watching what greatness is all about.
Brent Musburger

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
James Robinson

Courage, Old, Last

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
Margaret Truman

Love, Home, Career

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

Politics, Mediocrity, Needed

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson

Happiness, Knowledge, Ignorance

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
Peter S. Beagle

Great, Goes, Half

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Elgin Baylor

Dictionary, Jordan, Definition

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.
William Pierce

Person, Together, Seems

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