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
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
No one 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
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.
Fred Hoyle
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
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
William Hazlitt
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal
Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness
Friedrich Nietzsche
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