Great Quotes – Sayings About Greatness

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“My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America’s 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.”
– Jim Ramstad

“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
– Jim Rohn

“We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.”
– John Astin

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
– John Buchan

“Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.”
– John Cusack

“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”
– John Drinkwater

“America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.”
– John W. Gardner

“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.”
– John W. Gardner

“I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt‘s, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans – but he was also a cold-blooded politician.”
– Jon Meacham

“The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.”
– Jon Meacham

“Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.”
– Jon Meacham

“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
– Jonathan Swift

“We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.”
– Jones Very

“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”
– Jose Marti

“Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country‘s ruin!”
– Joseph Addison

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.”
– Joseph Conrad

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.”
– Khalil Gibran

“If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.”
– Lady Gaga

“If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?”
– Lee Strasberg

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.”
– Les Brown

“That’s part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.”
– Lester Maddox

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”
– Maimonides

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