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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 thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
— Arthur Helps
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
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
— Winston S. Churchill
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
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
— Seneca The Younger
Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.
— Colleen McCullough
A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.
— Amish Tripathi
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
— Blaise Pascal
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
— Seneca The Younger
He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
— Umberto Eco
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
There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man
— Wallace D. Wattles
The only greatness for man is immortality.
— James Dean
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
— Dorothy Height
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
— Theodore Parker
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
If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
— Horace Mann
Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, The greatness of a man's power is in the measure of his surrender.
— Rick Warren
You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord. — Lailah Gifty Akita
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 greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
— Robert Kennedy
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
— Isaac D'Israeli
The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. — Henry Enfield Roscoe
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Every great man is unique.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness ... he must not forget that he is a person.
— Pope John Paul II
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To go where no man has gone before, follow the steps of Jesus.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
— Henry Moore
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
— Blaise Pascal
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
— Phillips Brooks
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
— Theodore Parker
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
You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.
— Brent Weeks
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
— Anuj
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
