greatness

1.

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

- Champman, George

2.

Experience is the key to greatness.

- Williams, Arthur

3.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

4.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

- Brown, Les

6.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

- Brooks, Phillips

7.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

- Landor, Walter Savage

8.

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

- Richard Nixon

9.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest.

- Asquith, Margot

10.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

- Simmons, Charles

11.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

- Churchill, Winston

12.

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.

- Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

- Whitman, Walt

15.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

- Dane, Frank

16.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused û preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

- George W. Bush

17.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

- Stowe, Harriet Beecher

18.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

- Fischer, Ernst

19.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

- Simmons, Charles

20.

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

- Jennifer Granholm