top of page
Greatness Quotes


"The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country."


"If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan."


"Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar."


"The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness."


"Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable."


"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."


"I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness."


"Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality."


"In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air."


"It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves."


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


"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."


"Greatness always inspires you to be great."


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


"The great are like the sun, even when hidden from the world they still shine."


"The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small."


"Greatness is achieved not by the absence of difficulties but by the courage to conquer them."


"True greatness consists in being great in little things."


"No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness."


"Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none."


"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."


"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."


"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."
bottom of page