Greatness Quotes · Page 170

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

— Jeremy Taylor

How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?

— Chief Seattle

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

— Frederick William Robertson

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

— Plautus

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

— Jose Rizal

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as…

— John Knox

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part…

— Willard Gaylin

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Sunday Adelaja

“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and…

— William J.H. Boetcke

True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and…

— Sigmund Brouwer

“Greatness comes from within. It’s the outward manifestation of your inner thoughts, character, and willingness to endure pain and suffering.”

— Brian Reese

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another,…

— Martin Buber

“A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction,…

— Daniel S. Green

Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness…

— Julius Rosenwald

“If you don’t want to abuse yourself, if you don’t want to abuse your life, the best thing to do is to…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.

— Anonymous

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.

— Deontay Wilder

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

— Marcus Aurelius

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

— David Hume

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

— Augustus William Hare

“If you desire to be great in life and live a life of no regret the number one thing you should do…

— Sunday Adelaja

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

— Lord Chesterfield

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

— Edward Dahlberg

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

— Charles de Gaulle

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

— William Shakespeare

“Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.”

— Lolly Daskal

“If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Don’t lose the positive power to make right choices that will convert your tears into smiles.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Convert your time into solutions for the problems of the world and your immediate neighborhood.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

— Honore de Balzac

“Indeed, the researchers found that wide-faced men perceived themselves as powerful, and this contributed to their unethical behavior.”

— Matthew Hertenstein

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The effectiveness of your life is determined by your ability to convert your time into values”

— Sunday Adelaja