Greatness Quotes · Page 178

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

— Edmund Burke

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Don't turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

— John Paul Jones

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

— John Dewey

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.

— Horace

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.

— Glen Powell

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Sacrifice is greater than love; Character is greater than beauty; Humanity is greater than wealth; But nothing is greater than a sincere…

— Anonymous

“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but…

— Sunday Adelaja

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you…

— Anonymous

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable!…

— Michael Winter

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot…

— Karl Pearson

“Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of products that…

— Sunday Adelaja

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

— Phillips Brooks

The greatness, the spirit, it's all in me, and I want it more than anybody.

— Micah Parsons

“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.”

— Walter Lippmann

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

— Seneca the Younger

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

“A man’s thoughts can change his entire life;Whatever you cannot perceive, you cannot receive.”

— Justice Okafor

A man is judged not by the mistakes he does not make but by the mistakes he does not repeat.

— Christopher Cooper

Great thoughts alone do not make a man great but great thoughts with corresponding actions.

— Terry Mark

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

— Haniel Long

Obama Is Addressing the Nation, Romney Is Addressing Obama; Romney Keeps Saying I While Obama is Saying We

— Jason Santana

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

— Epictetus

We all are brought up on some values, and I believe values define a man's character.

— Mahima Chaudhry

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

— Thomas a Kempis

“Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

— David Brainerd

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

— Epictetus

“Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think…

— William Shakespeare

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of…

— Michael B. Jordan

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

— Chinua Achebe