Quotes about Greatness

"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others."
-Voltaire

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

"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."
-Sir Joshua Reynolds

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-Sir Winston Churchill

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

"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
-Horace Mann

"It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."
-Seneca

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
-Edmund Burke

"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."
-Les Brown

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
-Stewart L. Udall

"The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness."
-Adolf Hitler

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."
-Tecumseh

"...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself."
-William Hazlitt

"Fans think there's this greatness with athletes."
-Allyce Najimy

"Popularity is neither fame nor greatness."
-William Hazlitt

"We are bidding farewell to the best one among us, fully conscious of his greatness. There is no better place that this square for us to say our goodbye. Let us do it in a dignified manner -- let us shout his name as one."
-Milorad Vucelic

"The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness."
-Robert F. Kennedy

"Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid."
-William Hazlitt

"There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him."
-Margot Asquith

"For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness."
-Steve Harrigan

"An "ideal society" would be the graveyard of human greatness."
-Nicolas Gomez Davila

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

"Zeal for the greatness of England was the passion of his life."
-Lord Salisbury

"This announcement brings us another step closer to ensuring that more Canadian athletes experience the greatness of standing on the podium representing Canada in 2010."
-John Furlong

"But I also think he, and some of the people he brought in, had pretensions to greatness."
-Anthony Mcintyre

"Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success."
-Philip Guedalla

"We were on the verge of greatness. This has set us back 70 years."
-Bob Becker

"Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately."
-Frank Dane