Greatness Quotes · Page 112

How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone.

— Les Brown

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others...

— Victor L. Brown

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

— John Diefenbaker

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

— Dale Archer

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

— David Platt

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

— Ben Jonson

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

— John Jay Chapman

I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man.…

— John Piper

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world…

— Maureen Dowd

“When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one…

— Sunday Adelaja

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting…

— Sunday Adelaja

What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to…

— Homer Hickam

Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent…

— Debbie Stabenow

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable,…

— Marvin J. Ashton

It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Two men can talk on the phone and maybe not agree on everything but at least respect each other.

— Tyron Woodley

“All humans have got equal wealth; it’s the way we convert that differs”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain”

— Nietzsche Friedrich

“The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What people remember is the greatness players achieved. With that said, Favre is always going to be remembered as a Green Bay…

— Jerome Bettis

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

— Laozi

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

— Ovid

At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.

— James Gray

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

— Mark Twain

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

— James Buchanan

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

— Harold Geneen

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to…

— Lawrence Dale Bell

“Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute…

— Bob P. Buford

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

— Jocelyn Murray

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

— Jim Harbaugh

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

— William Shakespeare

“I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people’s dreams.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

— Twyla Tharp

“This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with…

— Sunday Adelaja