Greatness Quotes · Page 146

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

— Muhammad Ali

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

— Aphra Behn

“Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

— Vince Lombardi

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

— Ernst Fischer

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

— Anonymous

“Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and…

— Brendon Burchard

“True greatness does not flaunt itself in long displays. Rather, it comes in the briefest moments to quickly appear and then submerge…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue…

— Jon Meacham

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power…

— Orison Swett Marden

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building…

— Edwin Louis Cole

I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want,…

— Woody Allen

Greatness is consistency. So, I'm preparing for next season like I do for any other season and to me it's important to…

— Leon Draisaitl

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they…

— Herman Melville

“Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

— Thomas Carlyle

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little…

— William Shakespeare

“Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

— Samuel Johnson

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

— Ralph Steadman

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of…

— G. Stanley Hall

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 were not created to come to this earth and say "me too I came to live some". You were create to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Clement Attlee

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

— 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

“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

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

— Giacomo Leopardi

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

— Karl Jaspers

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Karim Seddiki

“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 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