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That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. Lester Maddox

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Joseph Addison

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Bo Bennett

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Abu Bakr

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Les Brown

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta Scott King

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Zig Ziglar

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Friedrich Schiller

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Elgin Baylor

With popular rulers, the wife can become the guardian of their greatness: Peter the Great was succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. Sometimes the wives are an improvement.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

John Cusack

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Elizabeth Bowen

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

Gustav Stresemann

Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.

Andre Ward

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Blaise Pascal

What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to machine, to cast or to bolt things together? Not one that's on a path to future greatness, that's for certain.

Homer Hickam

Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.

Richard Cohen

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

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Grenville Kleiser

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

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Jean Rostand

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Zig Ziglar

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

Lee Kuan Yew

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Buchan

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.

Jack Scalia

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Livy

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.

Franco Harris

When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

Lewis Hamilton

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

John Webster

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill