Greatness Quotes · Page 165

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

— Radhanath Swami

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”

— Sunday Adelaja

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

— Wallace D. Wattles

“It is the conversion of time that turns raw talents into world acclaimed celebrities”

— Sunday Adelaja

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

— Orison Swett Marden

The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive…

— Celia Thaxter

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his…

— Minoru Yamasaki

When the height of your expectations meets the height of your desires, use your maximum potential to guarantee nothing less than greatness.

— Jamie Timbre

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at…

— Benjamin Disraeli

And there is London!--England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles…

— Robert Montgomery

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power…

— Barack Obama

“The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be…

— Melanie Brown

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“If you really want to be financially wealthy, you must begin to convert your time into producing something for the world.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The products your life must have could be in the form of books you’ve read or teachings you listen to via audio…

— Sunday Adelaja

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

— William Halsey

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Greatness is measured not in your achievements but in the things you have overcome.”

— Kevin Michaels

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

— Confucius

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

— Booker T. Washington

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

“You have just one life here on earth and it behooves you to make the best out of it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

— Nick Simmons

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

— Josh Billings

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

— Benjamin Franklin

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

“Those who are great know a secret that the remaining lot do not know.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The best way to access time is to convert it into a concrete and measurable form”

— Sunday Adelaja

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

— Ogden Nash

Great minds are not feathered by roses but thorns to prick them compelling their flights to incredible heights.

— Dr Jankada

“You are killing your life if you are just going through the traditions and routine of church services with no product to…

— Sunday Adelaja

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

— Marie Corelli

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

— Billy Mills

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

— B. J. Palmer