Greatness Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Responsibility is the price of greatness. View quote
Winston Churchill
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. View quote
Seneca
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. View quote
Livy
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid of fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. View quote
William Shakespeare
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. (Edmund Burke)
France cannot be France without greatness. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. View quote
Bob Marley
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. View quote
Walter Scott
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. View quote
Horace Mann
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. View quote
William Hazlitt
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! (Joseph Addison)
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. View quote
Athenaeus
Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success. View quote
Georg Brandes
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson