Greatness Quotes · Page 131

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is…

— Karl Marx

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

— Clement Attlee

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

— Giacomo Leopardi

“Do not allow your life to keep pouring out and reducing without converting it to tangible products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the…

— Pearl S. Buck

“You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discouragement is the enemy's favorite tool to use against you. He knows there is GREATNESS inside of you. Fight back. Get your…

— Anonymous

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

— Anonymous

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness,…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew…

— William Hazlitt

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying…

— John Dewey

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I do not want you to live in the dream world because time erratically passes away in that world. Come to reality…

— Sunday Adelaja

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

— Karl Jaspers

Man is at his best when doing what he loves most and at his worst when doing nothing.

— Anonymous

“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

If you cant be a pencil to write anyones happiness, then try to be a nice eraser to remove someones sadness.

— Anonymous

The strongest men are not the men who talk. They are the men who listen.

— Karim Seddiki

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

— Simone Weil

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

— Jim Valvano

“A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's”

— Jean Paul Richter

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

— William Halsey

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

— Mark Twain

“A man shows he's a man by the way he corresponds to the expectations of those who are naive.”

— Torey Haydden

“The seed of greatness is at work in me! I am protected on every side;I am a Success.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

— George Bernard Shaw

Men never do anything right. And if they do something right, they'll never do it again.

— Anonymous

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

— Anonymous

Though the boot may fit the foot, one can rarely stand in the tread of his own reputation.

— Wes Fesler

“You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.”

— William Shakespeare

“He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.”

— Ouida

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

— John W. Gardner

“Discover and understand the true essence of time so as to know how best to utilize and effectively manage it”

— Sunday Adelaja