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Quotes About Greatness

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
~ Lewis Howes
There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.
~ William Halsey
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
~ Robert Kennedy
Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.
~ Ray Comfort
America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.
~ Rudy Giuliani
My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
~ Soulja Boy
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.
~ James Martineau
Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.
~ Andrew Luck
I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history
~ Muhammad Ali
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.
~ Vincent Massey
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
~ Thomas Paine
Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
~ Marco Rubio
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.
~ Deion Sanders
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
~ Lord Byron
The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.
~ Herbert Hoover
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.
~ Max Lucado
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
~ Democritus
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
~ Lionel Richie
Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
All the great things are simple.
~ Winston Churchill