Greatness Quotes
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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
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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.
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What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
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There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.
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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
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It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want or wish to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
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I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.
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For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness
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America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.
Charles B. Rangel -
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
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Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
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I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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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.
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It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
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Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
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Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
