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.
Mohandas 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

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

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Nicolas Chamfort

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver