#greatness

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#back #believed #chief #chief executive #crippling

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#appreciation #around #because #blames #country

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

— Titus Livius

#greatness #grown #humble #now #overwhelmed

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. ↗

— Jose Marti

#deeds #dignity #evaporate #famous #few

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#born #great #greatness #hire #officers

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#granted #greatness #taken #taken for granted #unnerved

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

#come #felt #gives #god #greatness

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#greatness #nature

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemporary #form #founded #greatness #lies