Quotes About Greatness

I have closed the gaping abyss of anarchy, and I have unscrambled chaos, I have cleansed the Revolution, ennobled the common people, and restored the authority of kings. I have stirred all men to competition, I have rewarded merit wherever I found it, I have pushed back the boundaries of greatness.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.

France will always be a great nation.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

Hail, Lincoln! As the swift years lengthen Still more majestic grows thy fame.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

I knew that successful politicians cannot bear to accept defeat within themselves. A human being cannot stand up to a double defeat. That is the secret of their continuous attempt to rise to power. They draw a feeling of supremacy from their power over others. It makes them feel victorious rather than defeated. It hides how essentially hollow they are inside, despite the impression of greatness they try to spread around them, which is all they really care for.

Do you consider America a great country? If so, why? Do you believe that America is great because of its government, as so many politicians do; or do you believe we're a great country because of the dynamic energy that flows from a free people operating under the rule of law as they pursue their personal interests under a system of economic liberty? Make your choice.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Neil Young David Briggs

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great...