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Greatness Quotes

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.


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


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


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.


The price of greatness is responsibility.


Good and great are seldom in the same man.


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


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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


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


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


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.


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?


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