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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatness of work is inside man.
— Pope John Paul II
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
— Walter Savage Landor
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
— Ernst Fischer
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
— John Ruskin
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.
— Adolf Hitler
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
— William Hazlitt
The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.
— Israel Meir Kagan
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
— Denis Diderot
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
— Bryant McGill
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.
— Spark Matsunaga
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
— Wendell Phillips
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
The great man ... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
— Stephen Leacock
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
— Walt Whitman
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
— Heinrich Heine
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
— C.V. Wedgwood
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
With the faith of a child and the wisdom of an old man one can achieve great things.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.
— Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
— Jonathan Swift
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servantsboth know too much of him. — Charles Caleb Colton
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
— William Allen White
No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.
— Soseki Natsume
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
— Anuj
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
— Blaise Pascal
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To go where no man has gone before, follow the steps of Jesus.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
— Brandon Sanderson
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
— Beryl Markham
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
— Woodrow Wilson
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
— Abraham Lincoln
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. — Wilferd Peterson
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
— John Drinkwater
You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord. — Lailah Gifty Akita
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The most important result of the efforts of a man is the effort of self-development and continuous growth
— Sunday Adelaja
No man who achieved greatness in the arts operated by himself; he was top man in a group of like-minded individuals.
— Kurt Vonnegut
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
— Lester Maddox
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
— Theodore Parker
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, The greatness of a man's power is in the measure of his surrender.
— Rick Warren
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
No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise..
— Wallace D. Wattles
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
— Isaac D'Israeli
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
