Greatness Quotes · Page 160

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

— Jose Marti

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

— Ned Rorem

“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

— Samuel Johnson

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

— William Wordsworth

“The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot. I dare you to maximize your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a…

— Raymond Chandler

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that…

— Henry Lawson

“The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value…

— Sunday Adelaja

Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven,…

— Stefan Zweig

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are…

— Peter Drucker

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than…

— Charles M. Schwab

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“When your race on earth is finally over and your time has completely disappeared, what will continue to live on in the…

— Sunday Adelaja

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Do not allow your life to just fly out of your own hands. Do not allow your life to just disappear into…

— Sunday Adelaja

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

— Edmund Burke

No one is born great, Great people develop themselves by aiming for the best and working hard for it.

— Anonymous

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

— Christopher Caldwell

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

— Thomas S. Monson

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

— Alan Cohen

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.

— Walter Russell

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

— Ayn Rand

“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.

— Andrew Craig

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build…

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

— Anonymous

Life is no respecter of stature or status, It is what you sow that you reap.

— Ore Abayomi

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

— George W Truett

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

— Grenville Kleiser

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

— Joseph Hall

“Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.”

— Joe Abercrombie

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer…

— Jeremy Collier

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield