Explore Quotes on Greatness

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

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

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.