Greatness Quotes · Page 153

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

— Samuel Johnson

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left…

— Harlan Mathews

“I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook.”

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

— Francis Bacon

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

— Soren Kierkegaard

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

— Okakura Kakuzo

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“We want to show men how they can access these positive archetypal potentials for their own benefit and for the benefit of…

— Robert L. Moore

“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by…

— Gerber Michael E

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the…

— Galileo Galilei

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather…

— Neal Shusterman

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how…

— Philip Jose Farmer

“No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was…

— Sōseki Natsume

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

— Jonathan Swift

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

— William James

“Men are so difficult - If they think you're trying to push them in a particular direction they dig in their heels…

— Lauren Henderson

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.”

— Jim Collins

Everyone is insecure. The trick is to make an attempt at greatness despite your insecurities.

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

— Ben Jonson

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

— David Platt

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

— Dale Archer

“How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain”

— Nietzsche Friedrich

“Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“All humans have got equal wealth; it’s the way we convert that differs”

— Sunday Adelaja

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

— John Jay Chapman

It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Two men can talk on the phone and maybe not agree on everything but at least respect each other.

— Tyron Woodley

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

— Anonymous

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed…

— Pam Farrel

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can…

— William Faulkner

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

— John Diefenbaker