Greatness Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Greatness
0 1 2 3

~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes

~ Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events ... it is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. ~

Robert F Kennedy 1925

~ Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. ~

Albert Camus

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

Mohandas Gandhi

~ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ~

Friedrich Schiller

~ Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ~

Blaise Pascal

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

John Buchan

~ Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness--great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. ~

Jim Rohn

~ Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Responsibility is the price of greatness. ~

Winston Churchill

~ 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 ~

Blaise Pascal

~ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ~

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

~ Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. ~

Oprah Winfrey

~ There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~ Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ~

Charles Simmons

~ 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 F. Kennedy

~ There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.î ~

Buck Rodgers

~ Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Edgar Allan Poe

~ A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. ~

Zadok Rabinwitz

~ No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. ~

Harry Gray

~ Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown ~

Charles de Gaulle

~ Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success ~

Philip Guedalla

~ We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~

Stewart Udall

~ The price of greatness is responsibility. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. ~

William Shakespeare

~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. ~

Alfred Victor Vigny

~ No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ~

William Hazlitt

Page : 0 1 2 3