Home / Topics / Greatness Quotes

Greatness Quotes

Browse 4457 quotes about Greatness.

Greatness Quotes

“If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.”

Moments Greatness Periods Tradition Regard Cease Over It Parliament Cathedrals Propriety Another Time

Author:John Diefenbaker

“A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.”

Spiritual Religious Greatness Elements Eternal Regard Indispensable Solemn True Greatness

Author:Daniel Webster

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

Littles Greatness Humility Ought Regard God Love Little Things Weary Presence Of God

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

“When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.”

Effort Half Team Greatness Habit Regard Champion Subtle Teamwork Traits Hearted Consuming Entitlement Grind Sap Milestone Erosion Half Hearted

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.”

People Men Long Able Politics President Memories Liberty Greatness Inspire Worship Regard Great Men Long Ago Assurance Continuation Shrines True Greatness

Book:The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

“The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”

Men Humans Wells May Spiritual Asks Greater Greatness Standards Twenties Regard Islam Empires Founders

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.”

Humans Law Nations Rights Greatness Regard Affair Human Rights Administration Bias Strict Enforcement

Author:Mary Burnett Talbert