“The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.”
“Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.”
“All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.”
“There would be no great men if there were no little ones.”
“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
“Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.”
“Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”
“A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.”
“He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.”
“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”
“The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.”
“A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.”
“A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.”
“The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.”
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.”
“Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.”
“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.”
“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
“Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
“He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]”
“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
“Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.”
“It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.”