Greatness Quotes

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart Udall

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

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

William Hazlitt

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred Victor Vigny

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

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

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Philip Guedalla

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown

Charles de Gaulle

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

Harry Gray

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Nelson Boswell