Greatness Quotes - page 27

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. (Jesse Jackson)
If we lavishly and boldly push forward in the creation and distribution of our riches, it is hard to over-estimate the pitch of beneficial influence to which we may attain in the present. But the maintenance of such a position is physically impossible. We have to make the momentous choice between brief greatness and longer continued mediocrity. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Better the absence of greatness than the establishing of a false greatness by assumed humility. View quote
Meher Baba
The greatest greatness and the greatest humility go hand in hand naturally and without effort. View quote
Meher Baba
False greatness is unsociable and remote. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
Envy not greatness for thou makest thereby thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. View quote
George Herbert
Men have never been so oppressed as in societies which set man at the pinnacle of values and exalt his greatness or make him the measure of all things. For in such societies freedom is detached from its purpose, which is, we affirm, the glory of God. View quote
Jacques Ellul
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country. View quote
Marco Rubio
The greatness of this country was attained not by teaching the message that one class of Englishmen must wed itself to a bitter antagonism against other classes of Englishmen, but was was rather founded on the doctrine that they were all English. All that was changed. They were to be class conscious. ... It means that we are to drive into that solidity of English life, which has secured our greatness, the poison of a belief that the interests of England require that there should be vital and eternal antagonism in her midst which prevents all Englishmen uniting for an all-English cause. In the old spacious days of Queen Elizabeth, when the Empire was still in the winning, as well as in the days of the Napoleonic Wars, we conquered by the force of a gallant and united nation. We did not march to battle under the Red Flag. (F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead)
Freedom consists not only in the absence of restraint but also in the presence of opportunity. Liberty is not a single and simple conception. It has four elements – national, political, personal and economic. The man who is fully free is one who lives in a country which is independent; in a state which is democratic; in a society where laws are equal and restrictions at a minimum; in an economic system in which national interests are protected and the citizen has the scope of secure livelihood, an assured comfort and full opportunity to rise by merit. This freedom, so truly and courageously defined, is not ours today and until this condition is reached, India will never achieve true greatness or happiness, based on the glorious features of her past civilisation. View quote
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you. View quote
Abu Bakr
Through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. View quote
Albert Camus
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics. View quote
Albert Camus
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? View quote
Taliesin
If we are to have that harmony and tranquility, that union of spirit which is the foundation of real national genius and national progress, we must all realize that there are true Americans who did not happen to be born in our section of the country, who do not attend our place of religious worship, who are not of our racial stock, or who are not proficient in our language. If we are to create on this continent a free Republic and an enlightened civilization that will be capable of reflecting the true greatness and glory of mankind, it will be necessary to regard these differences as accidental and unessential. We shall have to look beyond the outward manifestations of race and creed. Divine Providence has not bestowed upon any race a monopoly of patriotism and character. The same principle that it is necessary to apply to the attitude of mind among our own people it is also necessary to apply to the attitude of mind among the different nations. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness. (Baltasar Gracián)
The path to greatness is along with others. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of his kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. View quote
Giordano Bruno
I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free. View quote
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
O, our feeble tests of greatness! Look for one so calm of soul As to take the even chalice of his life and drink the whole. Noble deeds are held in honor, but the wide world sorely needs Hearts of patience to unravel this, - the worth of common deeds. View quote
Edmund Clarence Stedman