4,405 Quotes About Greatness

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."

When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.