Greatness Quotes

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

IMPOSSIBLE to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., which is over 95% anti-Trump, & for which I have called for a Federal TAKEOVER in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness. It is now a high crime embarrassment to our Nation and, indeed, the World.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Young men and women are to build up a strong character. A nation's greatness was reflected in the character of the people. If it was sullied by selfishness, such a people could not prosper or achieve great things. Selfishness had its place in life as everyone had to look to his own needs and that of his family, but it could not made the be-all and end-all of life.

By common endeavor we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.

Please help others rise. Greatness comes not from a position, but from helping build the future. We should pull others up.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

No punishment, in my opinion, is too great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin.

Faith is the mightiest force that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics - these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery - without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. Make them your models. This is the only way to become a great general and to master the secrets of the art of war. With your own genius enlightened by this study, you will reject all maxims opposed to those of these great commanders.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.