Great Quotes – Sayings About Greatness

by allinspiration.com

“A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.”
– Rudolf Otto

“Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.”
– Rush Limbaugh

“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we’re going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.”
– Sanford I. Weill

“Governor, why wouldn’t anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?”
– Sean Hannity

“I want to be known as ‘The Big Shakespeare.’ It was Shakespeare that said, ‘Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them’.”
– Shaquille O’Neal

“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
– Simone Weil

“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.”
– Stanislaw Lem

“I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL – once the leading Internet company in the world – can return to its past greatness.”
– Steve Case

“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
– Stewart Udall

“When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.”
– Tecumseh

“Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America’s proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.”
– Theodore C. Sorensen

“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.”
– Theodore C. Sorensen

“Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.”
– Thomas Starr King

“Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.”
– Titus Livius

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”
– Victor Hugo

“Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.”
– Walter Savage Landor

“Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.”
– Walter Scott

“The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.”
– William Booth

“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”
– William Hazlitt

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
– William Shakespeare

“Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.”
– William Shirley

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
– Wilma Rudolph

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
– Winston Churchill

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