Greatness Quotes · Page 150

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

— Thomas Aquinas

“If you desire to be financially wealthy but don’t know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The major difference between the rich and the poor is in their time conversion”

— Sunday Adelaja

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To be taken with love for a soul, God does not look on its greatness, but the greatness of its humility.

— St John Of The Cross

“Greatness is the quality of time you are able to invest into your purpose.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

— Graydon Carter

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should…

— Ayn Rand

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and…

— John Marin

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have…

— Fela Kuti

“An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter…

— Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.…

— Leo Tolstoy

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does…

— Confucius

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Andrew Craig

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Walter Russell

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

— Thomas S. Monson

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

“Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot. I dare you to maximize your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

— Emile M. Cioran

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.”

— Joe Abercrombie

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

— Joseph Hall

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

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

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