Greatness Quotes · Page 123

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

— Victor Hugo

“God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man's company and find out how man faired in the course…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A man will remain a rag picker as long as he has only a rag picker’s vision.”

— Orison Swett Marden

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

— John Henry Newman

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

— Albert Einstein

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

— H. P. Lovecraft

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe…

— Camille Paglia

“To truly be satisfied in life, you must invest your time into doing what you were born to do instead of wasting…

— Sunday Adelaja

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming…

— Saint Bernard

One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will…

— Zhuangzi

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity…

— Cyrus the Great

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a…

— Tony Robbins

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are…

— Anonymous

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have…

— Anne Frank

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

— William Arthur Ward

“A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.”

— T.F. Hodge

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

— Plutarch

“It is a well–known fact that the greater a man is the less he has on his door–plate.”

— Karel Čapek

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of…

— Beryl Markham

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

— Lana Turner

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Like I always say, the man makes the title; the title doesn't make the man.

— The Miz

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.

— Sarojini Naidu

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond…

— Zhuangzi

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

— Brother Lawrence

“[Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [...]”

— David Hume

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

— J. I. Packer

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

— Edna Ferber

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

— John Henry Newman

“No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

— Henry Miller

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

— Claude M. Bristol

“People who have their dreams fulfilled are those who go outside their comfort zones to fight for their dreams.”

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

— Henry John Heinz

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

— Marianne Moore