Greatness Quotes · Page 177

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

— Pope John Paul II

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

— Anton Webern

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, Though great ones are their object.”

— William Shakespeare

“Without order in your life, you will realize that you will only be busy but without commensurate results.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

— Henry Hazlitt

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

— Henry Adams

“But men who dress as goats and gallivant through sex riots playing flutes tend not to be the most logical people.”

— Jaye Wells

“If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you…

— Sunday Adelaja

“It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that time…

— Sunday Adelaja

The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is…

— Confucius

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but…

— Abraham Verghese

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as…

— Augustus Hare

“Vacation time is the best time to do solitude because you could just take two weeks of it or one week of…

— Sunday Adelaja

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible,…

— Jonathan Malley

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

— Alan Cohen

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn…

— Andre Malraux

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

— Pierre Corneille

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

— Oriana Fallaci

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even if we cant be together in the end Im still grateful you were part of my life at one point.

— Anonymous

This is not the time for grieving, this is yet another chance to effect the change you much desire to see.

— Ore Abayomi

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

— Samuel Johnson

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while…

— Sunday Adelaja

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we…

— Jay Abraham

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

— Pamela Anderson

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

— Matthew Hayden

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

— Joshua Reynolds

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

— George Washington

“A gentleman owned his blame and his shame and in this case, Jacob claimed both.”

— Ruth Logan Herne

Men are like fish...neither would get in trouble if they kept their mouths shut.

— Anonymous

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit…

— Pindar

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve... You only need a heart full of grace.

— Martin Luther King, Jr