Quotes About Greatness

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

If we can make America great again and if we can get everybody working and bettering their lot in life, then this becomes the great country that it once was, that it's ceased to be.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

Source of national strength. By providing leadership, guidance, restraint, security, and values, the family unit promotes the greatness of the nation. Should the family fail in these responsibilities, the nation will suffer as a result.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

And that goes to show that when you are great, you are just great, and even when you do something bad, you are still great.

Great Actions speak Great Minds.

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow of those who have gone before, I mean those who have struggled and surmounted, I mean those who have aspired, I mean Rembrandt, I mean Turner, I mean Michelangelo and Matisse … I mean obviously Rothko.

woman out there watching—many of whom idolize Margaret and think of her as a pioneer who broke through very thick, very real glass ceilings—to know that success always comes with a price and that greatness often doesn't allow for balance.

Passion is a choice. You need to choose to be great. It's not a chance, it's a choice.

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

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

I like interesting people. I'm boring myself, but I'm drawn to greatness.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was greatness in the female side of her line, and if she could nurture it and enhance its luster, then she would.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed ...