Greatness Quotes

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn’t end with you.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.