Greatness Quotes

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

I have great judgment. I have good judgment. I know what’s going on.

Being confident feels great. But there is a risk involved of you being too proud of yourself. How is this dangerous? You don’t realize this.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

The price of failure is just too great to imagine.

I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.