There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama

True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons

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

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

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

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Jean Baudrillard

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

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Tecumseh

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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn