Greatness Quotes · Page 134

“Most people on the face of the earth do not know what to do with their time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

— Mary Renault

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Don't try to beat the greatest. Just try and be the greatest,by beating your Yesterday's with Today's.

— Egba Terry

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the…

— William Gilmore Simms

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

— Rita Ora

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

— Confucius

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we…

— Merle Shain

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing…

— Allegra Goodman

All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise…

— J. G. Holland

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness…

— Wilhelm Reich

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a…

— William Penn

“Without vision, we can't fully comprehend the unlimited potential packed within. When that happens, we can't attain greatness- our birthright.”

— Assegid Habtewold

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that…

— Marion Jones

“Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from…

— Suzy Kassem

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's…

— Andrae Crouch

“To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Greatness is the born of ordinary men who decided to work extraordinarily hard.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

— Charles de Gaulle

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

— Melvyn Douglas

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a…

— Heber J. Grant

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you…

— Bernard Hopkins

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert

“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every…

— G.K. Chesterton

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

— Albert Einstein

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

— Charles Tomlinson

“The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but”

— Amor Towles

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

— Philip Neri

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter His presence.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

— Julius Caesar

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

— William Shakespeare

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you really want to buy greatness with time, you must invest the quality amount of time into your purpose and land…

— Sunday Adelaja

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

— Arthur Schopenhauer