Greatness Quotations | Page 2

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

I believe in the greatness of our people.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown — and the pettiness of the big,

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

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.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

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.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.