Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to accept nothing but the best you will often get it.” — Lailah GiftyAkita Copy Share Image
Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A man who is difficult to be influenced and can't be easily controlled by , receives a greater sense of respect and… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people,… — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to be great, every big river starts as a small stream, every tall tree originates as a short seed,… — Joshua Neal Hartry Copy Share Image
“To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“❤Everyone has problems which are usually results of their environment. The key to greatness is to have the ability to rise above… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“But I have heard that he who is skilful in managing the life entrusted to him for a time travels on the… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed… — Pam Farrel Copy Share Image
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Roman greatness is a proof of the excellence of their legions,” — Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
“The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image