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Greatness Quotes

But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5. Malvolio reads from the love letter he thinks is from Olivia. In reality it was written by one of Olivia’s servant’s Maria to trick the unpopular steward. As well as hinting that Olivia loves him, the letter also excites Malvolio’s ambition to become great and move up in the world. The only love that Malvolio is going to have is his own self-love.

Joe Biden is not the savior of America’s soul – he is the destroyer of America’s jobs, and if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of American greatness.

– Donald Trump

At Republican National Convention.

The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy. As long as everybody understands what they are doing, that they are FAKE NEWS and truly bad people with a sick agenda, we can easily work through them to GREATNESS!

– Donald Trump

Blaming news media for George Floyd protests.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

– Winston Churchill

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

– Hans Frank

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

– Henry Fielding

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

– Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

– Horace Mann

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

– George Chapman

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

– Horace Mann

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

– Henry Fonda

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

– John Webster

The only greatness for man is immortality.

– James Dean

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

– James Buchanan

At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.

– James Gray

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt’s, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans – but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

– Jon Meacham

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

– James F. Cooper

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

– John C. Calhoun

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

– Jean Rostand

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

– Jon Meacham

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.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

– Isaac Bashevis Singer

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

– John Cusack

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

– Jonathan Swift

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship – Shakespeare, Cervantes.

– Ismail Kadare

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

– Jim Valvano

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as ‘Western Civilization,’ long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

– John Henrik Clarke

America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

– John W. Gardner

I want to go out and chase greatness. That’s all I want to do.

– J. J. Watt

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