Richard M. Nixon Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Positive, Courage, Disappointment

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

• This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Memorial Day, Strong, Determination

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.457, Best Books on

• No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strength, Hurt, Strong

• To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.
  To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.
  When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.
  Greatness comes in simple trappings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Kindness, Angel, Simple

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.2, Best Books on

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