Greatness Quotes

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

~ Anne Frank

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

~ William Booth

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

~ Blaise Pascal

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

~ James Buchanan

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

~ Lewis Howes

I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.

~ Mike Huckabee

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

~ Leo Tolstoy

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

~ Horace Mann

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

~ James Harvey Robinson

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

~ Jean Anouilh

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

~ William Shakespeare

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

~ Aristotle

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

~ Elbert Hubbard

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

~ Larry Fitzgerald

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

~ Edmund Burke

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

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

~ John C. Calhoun

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

~ Frank Ocean

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

~ Jay-Z

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

~ Zig Ziglar

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

~ Charles Kendall Adams

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

~ Philip Guedalla

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

~ Lee Kuan Yew