Greatness Quotes · Page 121

Small minds cant comprehend big spirits. To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated, and misunderstood. Stay strong.

— Anonymous

Now I've realized that every man has a certain nature. Some people prefer something

— Mak_786

He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.

— Sergio Martinez

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

— Peter Buffett

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

— Anonymous

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

— Zig Ziglar

Love is when you look into someones eyes and see everything you need.

— Anonymous

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

— Confucius

This constant need for dominance and strength, having walls up, this kind of silent broker cowboy who needs to have something that…

— Rege-Jean Page

“If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially…

— Bryant McGill

“There is indeed no limitation in life to anybody’s height of greatness. The only limitation that we all have is the limitation…

— Sunday Adelaja

“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable…

— James Allen

Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi…

— Michael A. Ledeen

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show…

— Henry David Thoreau

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The…

— Walter Russell Bowie

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

— Abraham Lincoln

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

— Anonymous

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

— Pindar

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

— Anonymous

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

— Ernst Fischer

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

— Aphra Behn

“Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

— Vince Lombardi

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

— Andre Gide

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon em.

— Anonymous

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

— Saul Bellow

The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends.

— Ore Abayomi

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

— Muhammad Ali

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

— Jack Johnson

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

— Evan Esar

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet…

— Edmund Burke

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

— Eric Burns

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“Not only can you decide to be great, you also have the power to determine the height of your greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“If you don’t want to regret your life late, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

— Benjamin Disraeli