Greatness Quotes · Page 163

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

— Baron de Montesquieu

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

— Edward Gibbon

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

— James C. Collins

“great minds save before they spend, but idiots spend as soon as the income arrives, they never plan because they never save”

— Anath Lee Wales

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

— Anonymous

“He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.”

— Steven Pressfield

“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.”

— M.G. Hardie

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little,…

— Eduardo Galeano

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this…

— Steven Adler

No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission,…

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the…

— Louis Kronenberger

The one thing about basketball is that it continues to evolve and I love it so much. It does so much for…

— Jalen Rose

A reason to love and a reason to hate, a reason to know a reason to create, a reason to live the…

— Senora Roy

Great broadcasting requires all of us, those who are in positions of power and especially those who are in positions to employ…

— Robert Rinder

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

— Samuel Johnson

When everyone is buying into a system and puts their ego to the side, that's when greatness happens.

— Karl-Anthony Towns

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

— Robert Fritz

“Success stood in some people’s way of moving from being good to being great.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Most people live un-great life's. They die to prove their greatness!

— Denise Clark

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The seed of greatness is at work in me! I am protected on every side;I am a Success.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

— George Bernard Shaw

Men never do anything right. And if they do something right, they'll never do it again.

— Anonymous

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

— Anonymous

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

— William Halsey

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

— Mark Twain

“A man shows he's a man by the way he corresponds to the expectations of those who are naive.”

— Torey Haydden

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

— Simone Weil

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

— Jim Valvano

“A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's”

— Jean Paul Richter

“You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn’t waste your time here on earth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

— Ruben Ostlund

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing.

— Anonymous