Greatness Quotes · Page 149

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still…

— Bernard Baruch

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

— James Cash Penney

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

— Mary Astell

“To see time and life correctly , you must begin to access life as seconds, as minutes and as hours.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.”

— Amanda Foreman

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

— John Cusack

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

— John Steinbeck

“The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted…

— Sunday Adelaja

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness…

— Tryon Edwards

“Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and…

— Pete Buttigieg

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man…

— Swami Vivekananda

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do,…

— Sallust

“genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or…

— Sean Patrick

“The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself…

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to…

— Moran Atias

“A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

You don't have to be great, you deserve to be great, you have greatness in you. So be & have an awesome…

— Ricardo Housham

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness.

— Robin Sharma

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

— William Hazlitt

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

— Elbert Hubbard

Men have made out, that only they can run the world. It's in about as bad a state as it well can…

— Ann Oddy

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

— Heinrich Heine

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

— Owen Feltham

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.”

— Willis R. Whitney

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

— George L. Carlson

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

— Jonathan Swift

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

— George Bernard Shaw

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The greatness, the spirit, it's all in me, and I want it more than anybody.

— Micah Parsons

“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.”

— Walter Lippmann

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

— Seneca the Younger

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

Great thoughts alone do not make a man great but great thoughts with corresponding actions.

— Terry Mark

A man is judged not by the mistakes he does not make but by the mistakes he does not repeat.

— Christopher Cooper

“A man’s thoughts can change his entire life;Whatever you cannot perceive, you cannot receive.”

— Justice Okafor

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

— Haniel Long

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck