Quotes about Greatness
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.
- Mary Baker Eddy
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.
- Calvin Coolidge
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
- Oscar Wilde
Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.
- Joseph Prince
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
- Tony Evans
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
- William Barclay
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No man is great if he thinks he is.
- Will Rogers
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
- Edmund Burke
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson