Greatness Quotes - page 2

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success. (Philip Guedalla)
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
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. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind. View quote
William Hazlitt
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. View quote
Ayn Rand
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficultyto keep heart when all have lost it to go through intrigue spotlessto forego even ambition when the end is gained who can say this is not greatness. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. (Seneca)
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. View quote
Marcus Garvey
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender. View quote
William Booth
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. View quote
John Buchan
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. View quote
Václav Havel
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. View quote
Paul Dirac
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. (Kahlil Gibran)
Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed, to be simple is to be great. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
On Floyd Mayweather: "Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people." View quote
Mike Tyson