Quotes on Greatness

How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.