Greatness Quotes
One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mightier than God yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.
Each honest calling each walk of life has its own elite its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.
The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.