Greatness Quotes · Page 128

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

— Graydon Carter

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Walter Russell

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Ayn Rand

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified…

— Jim Ramstad

“Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it is being converted,…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is…

— Booker T. Washington

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according…

— Albert Claude

“Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which…

— C.S. Lewis

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we…

— Mel Brooks

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and…

— Harry Mulisch

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

— Andrew Craig

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Thomas S. Monson

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Christopher Caldwell

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

— Anonymous

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

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Joseph Hall

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

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— Ore Abayomi

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

— George W Truett

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

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Gibbon

“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

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

— James C. Collins

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe