Greatness Quotes · Page 126

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose…

— Marcus Aurelius

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

— Lord Acton

“You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

— Jean Toomer

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

— Horace

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

— Epictetus

“Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself…

— Wallace Stegner

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they…

— Walter Lippmann

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who…

— J. I. Packer

“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time…

— Sunday Adelaja

“A man shouldn’t be measured by looks, attire, or finances. A man should be measured by his character, actions, and intelligence. -Nate…

— Nate Spears

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with…

— William Ellery Channing

Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that…

— Joel Osteen

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach…

— Mike Tyson

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

— Plutarch

The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness.

— Lorii Myers

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

— Henry David Thoreau

Some people are born great. Some people achieve greatness and others¦ have greatness thrust upon them.

— Anonymous

“Men who had the capacity to apologize—and who knew the right words with which to do it—were few and far between.”

— Faith Hunter

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

— William Mathews

Winners train until they can win. Champions train until they cannot fail!

— Anonymous

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

— Merrill Markoe

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

We all have faults and weakness, as well we all have greatness and strengths,you are a masterpiece .Love yourself as you love…

— Nishan Panwar

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.”

— Udai Yadla

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

— Swami Vivekananda

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are…

— Bernard Baruch

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

— Max Beerbohm

I am aiming for greatness because being good sometimes it's just not good enough.

— London Mond

“Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.”

— Agatha Christie

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

— Irving Wallace

Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly, for he freely fords who sees the shallows.

— Benjamin Franklin

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

— Henry David Thoreau