Quotes about Greatness
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
— Heinrich Heine
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
All great virtues become great men.
— Pierre Corneille
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
— James Faust
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.
— James Faust
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