Top 285 Greatness Quotes

I’m not afraid to lose. I’m here for the competition. I’m here to make greatness.
Keith Thurman
Greatness is contagious.
Lou Williams
God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.
Dayananda Saraswati
America’s greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.
John Hickenlooper
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan
I always believed in myself, and even in the bad times, when I’d do bits of greatness here and there, it was those kinds of things that kept me alive and helped me to get to where I am now.
Robbie Lawler
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
Franco Harris
Governor, why wouldn’t anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Sean Hannity
Greatness comes to those who wait.
Anthony Rendon
In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
Hans Frank
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
Fran Tarkenton
Movies such as ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ in 1939 to ‘Dave’ in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen – decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
Ron Fournier
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster
I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.
Eileen Myles
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L’Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she’s the star. Ke$ha’s greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!
Rob Sheffield
What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn’t know how to weld, to machine, to cast or to bolt things together? Not one that’s on a path to future greatness, that’s for certain.
Homer Hickam
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Honestly, I hated Dirk growing up. As I got older and wiser, obviously I was really able to appreciate his greatness as I learned the game of basketball.
Julius Randle
Some people say pain is a fuel for greatness and if that’s true, then my tank will forever be full.
Caleb Plant
I lived in a bubble: my whole entire military career where I thought that everything was perfect. And I thought that every time we went overseas and we fought for this country, we were doing it because we were trying to get other people a sliver of the greatness that we have here in the United States of America.
Richard Ojeda
No, our greatness does not come from our government.
Sonny Perdue
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem
I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
Mariska Hargitay
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
Saint Bernard
I’m not very ambitious, sorry… I don’t get up and think, ‘Today, I shall achieve greatness.’ It’s more, ‘Today I might have Marmite on my toast.’
James May
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King
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America’s greatness is not found in the size of its government. America’s greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
Rick Perry
Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
Abu Bakr
Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix ‘Tito’ Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.
Miguel Cotto
The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.
Trish Regan
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
David Brainerd
I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
James L. Brooks
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
Henry Fonda
Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
Myles Munroe
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
Chen Shui-bian
Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.
Chris Gardner
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery – courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
James Harvey Robinson
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.
Nick Flynn
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read ‘New Grub Street’ and weep.
Tina Brown
Big Thief is destined for greatness.
Domino Kirke
The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children.
Margaret Geller
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
James Fenimore Cooper
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Lionel Richie
We expect nothing but greatness from ourselves.
Karl-Anthony Towns
Greatness is empowered in a system where you pass the ball, not pound it.
B. J. Armstrong
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
Lee Strasberg
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation’s greatness.
Yvette Clarke
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
Archibald Alexander
The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I’m about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don’t want to belong to that bag.
Fela Kuti
When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
Deontay Wilder
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Black Thought
I love being in a spot where not only do I expect my own greatness – I’m also part of an organization that expects greatness from me. Or just think of it this way: Would you want to be the dude who lets Pat Riley down?
Tyler Herro
I’m such a Shangela fan. I think she exemplifies ‘Drag Race’ greatness. She’s like the Tiffany ‘New York’ Pollard of ‘Drag Race.’ She’s like a patron saint of reality TV.
Trixie Mattel
The U.S. military is known the world over for its advanced technology as well as the prowess, skill, and dedication of its service members. When you grow up in the company of its leaders, as I did, you understand that this greatness is something that is cultivated.
Harris Faulkner
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
Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward