Greatness Quotes · Page 120

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.

— Wallace D. Wattles

“Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

— Horace

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

— J. C. Macaulay

“When you invest your time you will notice that you are being fruitful and that you are multiplying your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way it's animals are treated.”

— Mahatma Ghandi

A Human Stucture Is A Manuscript Of God's Love, Yet Man Is The One Who Ruins The Love.

— NizamShahbaaz

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as…

— Samuel Johnson

“Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like…

— C. JoyBell C

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Actualize the dreams now and don’t procrastinate them for the future. Use every second, minute and hour that you have to fulfill…

— Sunday Adelaja

“But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being…

— Marc Morris

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of…

— Paulo Freire

You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith;…

— Napoleon Hill

It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to…

— Bret Stephens

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set…

— Gilbert Parker

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

— Leo Tolstoy

“Strive to discover why you exist and then begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

— Baltasar Gracian

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

— Luc de Clapiers

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

— Omar N. Bradley

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not…

— Odell Shepard

I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.

— Chrissy Metz

He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest

— Thomas a Kempis

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

— Elbert Hubbard

“My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

— John C. Maxwell

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

— Leonard Maltin

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But…

— Oren Arnold

“Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Some people say pain is a fuel for greatness and if that's true, then my tank will forever be full.

— Caleb Plant

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

— Igor Stravinsky

“the old Styx responded, now speaking in English. “Every man is the architect of his own fortune, and unfortunate things happen.”

— Roderick Gordon

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

— Otto Weininger

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

— Seth Godin

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

— George Santayana

“A product is supposed to be what you are intentionally producing with your life at least every month.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

— Frederick William Robertson