Greatness Quotes · Page 114

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its…

— Edwin Land

“Time is the greatest wealth in the world and only through conversion of time can money be made.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

— Charles Rollin

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

— Barbara Walters

Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.

— Jay Baer

“If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The greatest thing in all the world is loving. The second greatest in all the world is learning.”

— Anonymous

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

— Anonymous

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

“Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which…

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

— Confucius

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

— Sabrina Jeffries

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

— Shaunie O'Neal

“The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. - The Greatness of Saturn”

— Robert Svoboda

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

— Andy Andrews

“Greatness must be measured by the transfer of success to future generations”

— Mlungisi Simelane

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

— Saint Augustine

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

— Thucydides

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

— Ben Bernanke

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

— Sheri S. Tepper

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

— Blaise Pascal

By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.

— Bhakti Charu Swami

Men have always been gentlemen to me - responsible people with healthy attitudes.

— Aretha Franklin

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

— Anne Desclos

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

— Evan Esar

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

— Thaddeus Stevens

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

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— Alan Cohen