Greatness Quotes · Page 170

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

— George Santayana

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

— Walter Savage Landor

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

— Frederick William Robertson

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

— Herodotus

“men wrestle with the things they cannot change, and they ignore those that might bend to some economy of effort.”

— Hugh Howey

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

— Simone de Beauvoir

24 hours from greatness, I'm that close. Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt.

— Drake

I think that the consistency on being great and a top player, you know, it's always been the goal because it's not…

— Bobby Wagner

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of…

— Abraham Lincoln

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds,…

— Mark Twain

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most…

— William Ellery Channing

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree,…

— Samuel Johnson

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently…

— Thomas Hartwell Horne

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking…

— Aldous Huxley

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

— Richard Steele

“Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Our major limitations in life are not the things we think we lack but the things which we have that we don’t…

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

“We do not thieve the peckers of men who've spurned us and squirrel them away in glass jars.”

— Camille DeAngelis

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they…

— Helen Keller

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

— Chuck Palahniuk

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

— Yousuf Karsh

“Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.”

— Kirk Mango

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make…

— Richard Ashworth

“You must fight to invest your time into producing products and added value to your generation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Some measure greatness by trophies and awards, but greatness will never come unless you pick yourself up off the floor

— Ryan Tackett

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the…

— Rick Perry

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

— Nahum Tate

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

— Jean Anouilh

“the most crucial ingredient in a team that achieves and sustains historic greatness is the character of the player who leads it.”

— Sam Walker

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Three are the peaks that everyone must seek: Achievement, Fulfillment and Enlightenment.

— Anonymous

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

— Tacitus

“She wanted to be remembered for doing something great. And her greatest fear was of being completely forgotten.”

— Katlyn Charlesworth

Big Show put down your pizza, look at the monitor and realise you are about to get in the ring with greatness!

— John Layfield

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

— John Ruskin

“A good investment of your time is studying to become better at what you do daily”

— Sunday Adelaja