Greatness Quotes - page 3

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. (Martin Buber)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. View quote
Aristotle
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. View quote
Phillips Brooks
I do not admire greatness that has no substance. View quote
Mary Balogh
Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love. View quote
Rick Riordan
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. View quote
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it? View quote
Lee Strasberg
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark. (Dave Chappelle)
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. View quote
Tecumseh
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. View quote
David Brainerd
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. View quote
Peabo Bryson
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness. View quote
Steve Case
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. View quote
José Martí
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. View quote
James Buchanan
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit love and gratitude from all Iraqis and from its plains, mountains, skies and waters. You are good sons of this country. You have offered to the country great men who have averted harm from the country and paved its way to glory and greatness. (Saddam Hussein)
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. View quote
Ayn Rand
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. View quote
Ralph Steadman
You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future? View quote
Stephen L. Carter
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. View quote
Chinua Achebe