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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."


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


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


"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."


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


"To be great, practice simplicity and express humility."


"Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!"


"The only greatness for man is immortality."


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


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


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


"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."


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


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



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


"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."


"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."


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


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


"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon, it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged."


"Great people only think of great things."


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


"The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."


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


"Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness."


"True greatness demands humility, the journey draws it from your struggling soul."
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