Greatness Quotes

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.

No human being is perfect. In our individual and collective lives every expression of greatness is followed, not by a period symbolizing completeness, but by a comma implying partialness. Following every affirmation of greatness is the conjunction "but." Naaman "was a great man," says the Old Testament, "but . . ."-that "but" reveals something tragic and disturbing-"but he was a leper.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

At times we are able to humiliate our worst enemy. Inevitably, his weak moments come and we are able to thrust in his side the spear of defeat. But this we must not do.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that He is both toughminded and tenderhearted.

Often in the casual remarks of great men one learns their true mind in an intimate way.

One mark of a great man is the power of making lasting impressions upon people he meets.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

If the measure of greatness is to gladden the heart of every human being on the face of the earth, then he truly was the greatest. In every way he was the bravest, the kindest and the most excellent of men.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.