Quotes about Greatness

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.1

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

America is too great for small dreams.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

No one shall be forgotten who was great in this world; but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved.

greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all.