Greatness Quotes · Page 143

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

— James C. Collins

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of…

— Sunday Adelaja

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

— Jean de la Bruyere

You can't expect greatness to stumble upon you, you must seek. All great aspects in life begin as a seed..

— Raghib Clitso

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

— Edward Gibbon

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

— James C. Collins

“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

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally,…

— Lee Child

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin…

— Anthony Hope

You get what you expect. If your expectation is great then you'll recieve of it's greatness but if you are expecting something…

— Anonymous

“When you can only remember the mundane things you did but do not have any valuable products to show for your time,…

— Sunday Adelaja

“To become a king of that territory, you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your…

— Sunday Adelaja

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them,…

— Maimonides

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me…

— William Shakespeare

“Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon be reckoned…

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

— Anonymous

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

— Baron de Montesquieu

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

— Brian Stelfreeze

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

— Plutarch

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday…

— Joseph Addison

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

— Marcus Aurelius

When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.

— Anonymous

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times…

— Oswald Mosley

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

— Austin O'Malley

“Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being; your purpose awaits your arrival.”

— Bryant McGill

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

— William Hazlitt

Either push yourself to greatness, or be trampled down by those who climb over you.

— Anonymous

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.

— Charles B. Rangel

“Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success stood in some people’s way of moving from being good to being great.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Most people live un-great life's. They die to prove their greatness!

— Denise Clark

When everyone is buying into a system and puts their ego to the side, that's when greatness happens.

— Karl-Anthony Towns

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

— Robert Fritz