greatness Quotes

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.