Greatness Quotes

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.

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

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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

I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.