Greatness Quotes · Page 132

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

— Plutarch

“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”

— @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What this game's really about is using each day as a platform to express your greatness.

— Robin Sharma

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

— Quentin Crisp

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

— Kate Zambreno

Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.

— Nick Bilton

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

— Barnes Wallis

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can notbe great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be…

— Herman Melville

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the…

— Michel de Montaigne

The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness…

— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr

“The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured…

— Sunday Adelaja

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied…

— Bertrand Russell

True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like…

— Zhuangzi

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved…

— Peter Senge

“It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has…

— Anthony Trollope

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

— Voltaire

“The secret of all greatness is to not allow time diminish without converting it into a product of greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

— Francis Picabia

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no…

— Adam Smith

Truly great people don't go around telling everyone how great they are, everyone already knows it.

— Anonymous

“A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.”

— James Edwin Gunn

“Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness.”

— Bryant McGill

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the…

— Georges Duhamel

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

— Laurence J. Peter

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

— Ignatius of Antioch

There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do.

— Ed Reed

“The higher you set the bar, the better positioned you are to reach greatness!”

— Yadi J

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

— Kara Goucher

“When a man stops searching for faults outside and starts creating greatness inside, life slowly rewards his purpose.”

— Srinivas Mishra

“There are two types of men. Those with self-control. And those without.”

— Karina Bush

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld