Greatness Quotes · Page 144

“He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.”

— Steven Pressfield

“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.”

— M.G. Hardie

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Walter Russell

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

— Andrew Craig

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Thomas S. Monson

“My prayer will shake heaven to come down and kiss the earth... and I will pose somewhere to watch it drop some…

— Israelmore Ayivor

This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to…

— Sharon Stone

“Well-determined centers of revery are means of communication between men who dream as surely as well-defined concepts are means of communications between…

— Gaston Bachelard

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to…

— James C. Collins

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the…

— John Piper

If becoming your most extraordinary self doesn't inspire you, if claiming your greatness doesn't get you moving in the morning, if you…

— Debbie Ford

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him,…

— Denis Diderot

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Anonymous

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

— Christopher Caldwell

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

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

— George W Truett

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

— Ore Abayomi

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Anonymous

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

“On the path toward greatness, the only thing that matters is that you consistently dedicate yourself to improving.”

— Al Kavadlo

“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.”

— Anthony Liccione

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

— Joseph P. Farrell

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

— Oscar Wilde

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

— Confucius