Greatness Quotes · Page 145

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

— Anonymous

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

— Pindar

Love is when you look into someones eyes and see everything you need.

— Anonymous

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

— Confucius

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

— Abraham Lincoln

He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.

— Sergio Martinez

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

— Peter Buffett

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

— Anonymous

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does…

— Herbert Read

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to…

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Let's say I try to ignore the small stuff, like wet towels on the floor, the dishwasher full to the brim and…

— Tess Daly

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is…

— Alexander Pushkin

“If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time…

— Sunday Adelaja

“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the…

— Abhijit Naskar

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman…

— Og Mandino

After I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl, it made me start to think that the only thing that marks greatness…

— Maverick Carter

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

— Zig Ziglar

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Today’s man should do more than just talk; he should act. He should do more than just promise; he should deliver.”

— Steve Maraboli

“You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.”

— Calvin

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

— Josh Billings

How you gonna compare yourself to greatness If you ain't ready to be great

— Mabor Maker Kulang

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

— Clifton Anderson

“God is great!, Nothing and no one can take that greatness away from him.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

— John Buchan

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

— Matthew Henry

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

— Samuel Richardson

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon em.

— Anonymous

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

— Andre Gide

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet…

— Edmund Burke

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

— Eric Burns

“Not only can you decide to be great, you also have the power to determine the height of your greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

— Evan Esar

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

— Jack Johnson

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

— Saul Bellow

The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends.

— Ore Abayomi