Greatness Quotes
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I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.
Eileen Myles
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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Lou Holtz
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Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
Daniel Lubetzky
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We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off.
David Fahrenthold
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There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.
William Henry Drummond
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.
Amy Chan
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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.
Lady Gaga
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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
Leo Strauss
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
Fernando Pessoa
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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
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You are watching what greatness is all about.
Brent Musburger
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
William Hazlitt
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How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.
John Tenniel
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Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
Cory Booker
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If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!
T. D. Jakes
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True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.
L. Ron Hubbard
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If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.
Jeff Greene
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Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.
H. W. Janson
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan
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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
Bertrand Russell
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
Quincy Jones