Top 285 Greatness Quotes

Unlike the Obama Cabinet, the Trump Cabinet is not comprised of do-nothing bureaucrats, who worked their way up the twisted, scheme-ridden Washington ladder; rather, they are doers, achievers, and leaders, who have attained the heights of greatness in their particular fields.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you’ve got, whether it’s a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

It takes a good car for anybody to be good, but it takes a good car and a special driver to achieve greatness.

When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

All I want is greatness for West Virginia, and I’ll work with anyone who is ready to help me turn this state around.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.

We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America’s greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don’t recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America’s greatness.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

If an immigrant comes here, and they’re willing to create jobs, and they’re willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that’s our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America’s greatness.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there’s no Andrae; there’s no fabulous band, there’s no greatness of ours. I’ve had hundreds of concerts like that, and that’s what I try to achieve.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

A president who believed that America’s greatness is recoverable and expandable – a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration – would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

Men like Sunil Dutt should not be mourned, only envied for their greatness.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

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

I’d be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

When you get two guys that gel together, you can feel greatness in the ring.

Like, I’m not enjoying LeBron’s greatness right now. I mean, I have no fun playing against him. So you don’t get to enjoy it until you look back.

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

Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.

The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It’s greatness. He told me, ‘We’re not just rappers, we’re artists.’

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

Greatness will come by looking forward – untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values – and by changing our nation’s future.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

For me, Manchester United means greatness.

It is so important for children to know that being a little bit wobbly or ‘different’ doesn’t stop somebody from achieving greatness!

When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that’s left is The Extraordinary.

There aren’t many people in the world that are as respected and loved when it comes to entertainment and as big as Pac. But the greatness that I adore the most is him as a man.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been a Fender connoisseur. And to have my name associated with greatness like that, it’s amazing. I couldn’t be more proud of anything. My children, and then being associated with Fender. In that order!

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Dennis Bergkamp is, in my eyes, still ‘The Master’. The fact that he never won the Champions League, the European Championship, or the World Cup does not take anything away from his greatness as a player.

The history of our Party is just the path travelled by our great people: its might is their might, its greatness is their greatness, and its victory is the victory achieved by them.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

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.

My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, ‘I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.’

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there’s been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I’m doing.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

Whenever there’s a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I’m going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn’t want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.