Greatness Quotes · Page 139

“It is the conversion of time that turns raw talents into world acclaimed celebrities”

— Sunday Adelaja

“If you really want to be financially wealthy, you must begin to convert your time into producing something for the world.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

— Orison Swett Marden

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”

— Sunday Adelaja

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

— H. W. Janson

Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created…

— Joel Osteen

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide…

— Laozi

“Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing,…

— Iris Murdoch

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is…

— William P King

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance…

— John Milton

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We…

— Rick Santelli

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave…

— John Wilmot

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

— Harriet Martineau

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

— Radhanath Swami

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

— Nick Simmons

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

— Josh Billings

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

— Benjamin Franklin

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

— Booker T. Washington

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

“You have just one life here on earth and it behooves you to make the best out of it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

— William Halsey

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

— Confucius

“Greatness is measured not in your achievements but in the things you have overcome.”

— Kevin Michaels

“The products your life must have could be in the form of books you’ve read or teachings you listen to via audio…

— Sunday Adelaja

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the…

— Samuel Butler

“Our lives are a picture of what we ought to do, what we need to do, what we are planning to do…

— Sunday Adelaja

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

— Thomas Fuller

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

— Sydney J. Harris

“And I guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories.”

— John Steinbeck

“Instead of you to be at the mercy of whatever they have made you into, rebuild your life into what it should…

— Sunday Adelaja