Greatness Quotes · Page 179

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

— Frederick Douglass

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

— Sophie Swetchine

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

— Brian Tracy

We're all human. We have our foibles, we've made mistakes, and yet there is still greatness.

— Michael Ansara

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it,…

— Phil Robertson

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

— Twyla Tharp

“A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.”

— Giovanni Della Casa

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still…

— Bernard Baruch

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…

— Jonathan Swift

“One common thing about great achievers is that, they keep asking useful questions every day. They ask questions like; “What do I…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing…

— Bob Proctor

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we…

— Matthew Arnold

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning.…

— Bruce Catton

I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is…

— Michael Gerber

“but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang…

— Kevin Hearne

“And here’s another order. From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven. You’ve faced more things this past year…

— George R.R. Martin

“If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will regret it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

— Mary Astell

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

— James Cash Penney

“To see time and life correctly , you must begin to access life as seconds, as minutes and as hours.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.”

— Amanda Foreman

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

— John Cusack

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

— John Steinbeck

“The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted…

— Sunday Adelaja

“A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

You don't have to be great, you deserve to be great, you have greatness in you. So be & have an awesome…

— Ricardo Housham

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

— Ulysses S. Grant

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

— William Hazlitt

Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness.

— Robin Sharma

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

— Elbert Hubbard

Men have made out, that only they can run the world. It's in about as bad a state as it well can…

— Ann Oddy

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

— Heinrich Heine

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.”

— Willis R. Whitney

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

— Owen Feltham

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

— Jonathan Swift

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

— George Bernard Shaw

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

— George L. Carlson

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If you want to know what a mans like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors,not his equals.

— J K Rowling

“A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E