I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

You don't have to be big to be great.

A person who is truly great is one who will take more than his share of the blame and less than his share of the credit.

The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Greatness, after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

What millions died-that Caesar might be great!

They're only great who are truly good.