Quotes About Greatness

Honor is the greatest poet.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u.

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.