Greatness Quotes · Page 117

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

— Orison Swett Marden

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

— Thomas Paine

“Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

— Marcus Aurelius

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

— Petronius

I think it's important, no matter your profession, to never become complacent and always strive for greatness.

— Jason McCourty

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

— Confucius

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“When you are just living your mundane life; just walking about or you are just sleeping and waking up and just chatting…

— Sunday Adelaja

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking,…

— Orson F. Whitney

“To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so…

— Sunday Adelaja

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner…

— Jeanette Winterson

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time,…

— Giorgio Morandi

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his…

— Jimmy Cannon

...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script andto every people in its own language,…

— Anonymous

“But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.”

— Louise Penny

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

— Charles Fenno Hoffman

We men are not valued for what we are, but for what they think we seem to be.

— Danny Tagle

The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

— Frosty Westering

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his…

— William Hazlitt

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Your life was meant to be used to fulfill your purpose and destiny.”

— Sunday Adelaja

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself…

— Stanley Milgram

“The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.”

— Ben Johnson

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

— Daniel Webster

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

— Thomas Otway

“Good men's actions are natural While a scoundrel's charity Is carefully planned to please.”

— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

— Max Euwe

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

— Eckhart Tolle

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

— Francis Picabia

“The way to becoming the best in your area of calling is to invest more time than anyone else in that area…

— Sunday Adelaja

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

— Thomas Otway

“Being extraordinary is not reliant on talent. It's reliant on the consistent development of better serving practices.”

— Wesam Fawzi

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

— Bob Lefsetz

“For, a man is the one who is judged by his accomplishments and not by appearances alone.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

— Travis Knight

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

— Henrik Ibsen

“The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?”

— Lev Grossman