Quotes About Greatness

Stop trying to be less of who you are. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. I hope God opens incredible doors for your life. "You have always been, and will always be, you.

I'm not afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Challenge is the crucible for greatness. It provides the context in which adversity and vision interact to provide for the creation of something new.

And compliance produces adequacy—not greatness. Only credibility earns commitment.

You can only be you, and it is not until you reclaim your unique self that you can be truly great.

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I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

Any great club needs the mentality to go on and achieve things - it is what clubs like United have.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.

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.

If you really think about the fabric of the United States, or the finance of any economy, finance is a true underpinning of what makes the economy great - if it can be done successfully, responsibly, and with a client orientation.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

I don't want to be another country. I want to be the United States of America, the greatest country in the world.

The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

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.

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.

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.

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.