Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

The only greatness for man is immortality.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.