Greatness Quotes · Page 116

To be taken with love for a soul, God does not look on its greatness, but the greatness of its humility.

— St John Of The Cross

“Greatness is the quality of time you are able to invest into your purpose.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

— Graydon Carter

“If you desire to be financially wealthy but don’t know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The major difference between the rich and the poor is in their time conversion”

— Sunday Adelaja

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his…

— Robert Farrar Capon

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Mark Twain

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a…

— Sonny Perdue

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can…

— Jonathan Swift

I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or…

— Andy Mineo

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or…

— James Madison

“It doesn’t matter your area of calling, you can invest quality time into it, you will definitely become the best and that…

— Sunday Adelaja

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on…

— William Wordsworth

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on…

— Henry Miller

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

— Oscar Wilde

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

— Confucius

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

— Joseph P. Farrell

“Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“On the path toward greatness, the only thing that matters is that you consistently dedicate yourself to improving.”

— Al Kavadlo

“To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer…

— Jeremy Collier

“Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.”

— Joe Abercrombie

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

— Joseph Hall

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

— Anonymous

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build…

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

— Mignon McLaughlin

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

— Grenville Kleiser

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

— George W Truett

Life is no respecter of stature or status, It is what you sow that you reap.

— Ore Abayomi

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

— Thomas S. Monson

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

— Alan Cohen

Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.

— Andrew Craig

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

— Ayn Rand

“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.”

— Sunday Adelaja