Greatness Quotes · Page 181

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

— Susan J. Ellis

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Excellence is a custom at the land of greatness, it drives our culture.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Time converted, invested and maximized converts a startup business into a corporation”

— Sunday Adelaja

Dont wait for the world to recognize your greatness ... Live it and let the world catch up to you...

— Leeteya

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

— Vilfredo Pareto

“There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his…

— Diogenes

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation,…

— Plato

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!…

— John Bunyan

At the end of the day, there are different paths to greatness. And I feel like we don't hear that message enough,…

— A'ja Wilson

I always believed in myself, and even in the bad times, when I'd do bits of greatness here and there, it was…

— Robbie Lawler

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

“This is what men must do. Their true job." "What's that?" "Take responsibility for what's theirs and let go the rest." "Seems…

— Lance Weller

…for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you.”

— Bryant McGill

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

— David Starr Jordan

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

— Charles MacArthur

“Don't give up your greatness because of someone's cynicism or narrowness of mind.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Your territory of choice is irrelevant, time conversion is what matters.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

— John Grisham

“Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.”

— Orrin Woodward

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.…

— Anonymous

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

— William J. H. Boetcker

God has planted greatness in you. Let today be the beginning of a great adventure as you step into the gifts He's…

— Nishan Panwar

“Always check your time and ask if you are moving closer or away from your greatness”

— Sunday Adelaja

“That is a vacation! It is the best time for you to be productive because you are not being distracted by work.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Cut your goals into tiny units of work and think only about one unit at a time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we…

— Louisa May Alcott

“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job?”

— Jan Kauskas

“We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

— Samuel Smiles

A man who knows how to make most of his time, really makes the most of himself...

— Pacifiersucker

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

— John Dewey

We don't bar no plexes, we way bigger than other men though. The diamond deuces on tinted windows, we in the wind…

— UGK

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

— Pierre Corneille