Greatness Quotes

Greatness Quote of the day

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Calmness is always Godlike.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

A great ship asks deep water.

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

When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.