Quotes About Greatness

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

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.

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.