Greatness Quotes · Page 140

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

— Walter Darby Bannard

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

— Anonymous

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

— Anuj

“being different can work for the individual who are comfortable with themselves, and most importantly work hard to achieve greatness.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“Do not watch your life melt away just like that for life is too precious to waste it doing nothing.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You measure a man not by his bank account, but what he does for others.

— Chad Garcia

“The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are…

— Franz Liszt

I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or…

— Dave Pelzer

It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it…

— Ezra Furman

“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but…

— Sunday Adelaja

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life…

— Leo Tolstoy

People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that…

— Sunday Adelaja

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't have to be great to get started, just get started to be great.

— Denise Clark

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

— Ernest Holmes

“Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Thank bloody Christ this is the right bloke. Wicked difficult getting the sod.”

— Jeaniene Frost

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

— Francis Bacon

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

— Albert Camus

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

— Walter Lippmann

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

— Tacitus

“If you, therefore, must be numbered among the great, you too must run for your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him…

— William Faulkner

Fear and doubts paralyze the mind. Faith and courage empowers you for greatness.

— Ore Abayomi

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

— Napoleon Hill

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

— Aristotle

“There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.”

— Harper Lee

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

— Greg Schiano

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

— Thomas Carlyle

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

— Marianne Williamson

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

— William Wordsworth

“Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu