Greatness Quotes · Page 124

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, those who achieve greatness are those who decide to achieve greatness.”

— Darrin Donnelly

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Humility plus the fear of God equl's to greatness, riches, happiness etc…add ur own…

— Gordons

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

— Laozi

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

— Keith Ferrazzi

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

— Fabius Maximus

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong,…

— Charles Spurgeon

Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw…

— Donny Deutsch

“Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was…

— Tamora Pierce (Author

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events…

— Anonymous

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I…

— Lady Gaga

Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does…

— Anonymous

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the…

— Nelson Mandela

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

— Ayn Rand

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

— Nathanael Emmons

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

— Walter Scott

“Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.”

— Joe Abercrombie

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

— Damien Hirst

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

— Aleister Crowley

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

“Of course, 85 per cent won’t be enough by itself to convict him, but it makes him someone you want to take…

— S.J. Bolton

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

— William Ellery Channing

“There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.”

— Anthony Trollope

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he…

— Rita Rudner

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

— Augustus William Hare

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man…

— Anonymous

One of the hardest things about greatness is recognizing it while it's happening.

— Anonymous

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

— Djuna Barnes

“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.”

— Robert E. Howard

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit…

— Napoleon Hill

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

— Anne Frank

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

— Eden Phillpotts

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

— Kristin Cashore