Greatness Quotes · Page 117

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.

— Walter Russell

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

— Emile M. Cioran

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot. I dare you to maximize your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

No one is born great, Great people develop themselves by aiming for the best and working hard for it.

— Anonymous

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

— Christopher Caldwell

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

— Edmund Burke

The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but…

— Adolf Hitler

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every…

— Bo Bennett

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep…

— Orison Swett Marden

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and…

— Themistocles

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said so eloquently: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of…

— Darren Hardy

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need…

— Ptolemy

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do not allow your life to just fly out of your own hands. Do not allow your life to just disappear into…

— Sunday Adelaja

Most people live un-great life's. They die to prove their greatness!

— Denise Clark

“Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Success stood in some people’s way of moving from being good to being great.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.”

— M.G. Hardie

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

— Samuel Johnson

“He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.”

— Steven Pressfield

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

— Robert Fritz

When everyone is buying into a system and puts their ego to the side, that's when greatness happens.

— Karl-Anthony Towns

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

— Baron de Montesquieu

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

— Brian Stelfreeze

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

— Anonymous

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

— James C. Collins

“great minds save before they spend, but idiots spend as soon as the income arrives, they never plan because they never save”

— Anath Lee Wales

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

— Edward Gibbon

“Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more.”

— Sunday Adelaja

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.

— Charles B. Rangel

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

— Austin O'Malley

“Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being; your purpose awaits your arrival.”

— Bryant McGill

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

— William Hazlitt