Greatness Quotes - page 4

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense. View quote
Éamon de Valera
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world! View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness. View quote
Themistocles
I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. View quote
Samuel Johnson
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet. (Walter Raleigh)
Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first. View quote
Ben Jonson
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all." View quote
Alberto Gonzales
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune. View quote
Thomas Traherne
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. View quote
George W. Bush
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. View quote
Italo Svevo
Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is...the higher achievement. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Greatness depends on where you are coming from. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of shubh. View quote
Sarojini Naidu
I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me. View quote
Woody Allen
It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. View quote
Herodotus