Great Quotes – Sayings About Greatness

by allinspiration.com

“This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we’re on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.”
– Marco Rubio

“The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.”
– Marcus Garvey

“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.”
– Marianne Williamson

“I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.”
– Mariska Hargitay

“The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one’s greatness of soul.”
– Mason Cooley

“Greatness is a spiritual condition.”
– Matthew Arnold

“Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.”
– Matthew Henry

“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”
– Max Lerner

“It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.”
– Meir Kahane

“I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.”
– Michael Jordan

“The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.”
– Minoru Yamasaki

“Sometimes I wonder whether Washington’s liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.”
– Mitt Romney

“The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.”
– Nelson Boswell

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.”
– Nicolas Chamfort

“Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.”
– Noel Coward

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I always knew I was destined for greatness.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.”
– Paul Tsongas

“I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America’s greatness.”
– Paul Tsongas

“The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.”
– Peabo Bryson

“No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.”
– Phillips Brooks

“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
– Publilius Syrus

“A great man is always willing to be little.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home… and eating it.”
– Rene Redzepi

“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”
– Richard Le Gallienne

“America’s greatness is not found in the size of its government. America’s greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.”
– Rick Perry

“When Ke$ha tries to rap like L’Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she’s the star. Ke$ha’s greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!”
– Rob Sheffield

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
– Robert Kennedy

“Movies such as ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ in 1939 to ‘Dave’ in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen – decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.”
– Ron Fournier

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