Quotes about Greatness
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
- Ronald Reagan
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
- Ayn Rand
Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.
- Ray Comfort
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor is the greatest poet.
- Dante Alighieri
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
- Thomas a Kempis
The true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
- Thomas Paine
There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.
- Joel Osteen
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
- Francis de Sales
America is too great for small dreams.
- Ronald Reagan