No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. – John McGraw
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it. – Lionel Richie
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
If an immigrant comes here, and they’re willing to create jobs, and they’re willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that’s our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future. – Jeff Greene
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration. – Matthew Arnold
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. – Jones Very
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. – John Buchan
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. – Khalil Gibran
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. – Jane Porter
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness. – Myles Munroe
Sometimes I wonder whether Washington’s liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America. – Mitt Romney
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library… When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. – Lawrence Clark Powell
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they’re going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity. – Keith Olbermann
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That’s the greatness of this country. – Rafael Cruz
Governor, why wouldn’t anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness? – Sean Hannity
The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland. – Richard Wagner
Our society, our culture – the greatness of America – goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK? – Rick Santelli
America’s greatness is not found in the size of its government. America’s greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people. – Rick Perry