Greatness Quotes · Page 112

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

— Thomas Paine

“You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There is no easy way to greatness in any venue. But if you work hard, good things will inevitably happen to you.

— Howie Long

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

— Woodrow Wilson

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

— Herbert Read

Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular

— Anonymous

“The fulfillment of your dreams lies within you and you alone. When you understand and accept this then nothing, or no one…

— John Passaro

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on…

— Bruce Barton

If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he…

— Rudolf Steiner

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything…

— John D. Voelker

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce…

— E. W. Howe

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of…

— Georg Simmel

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

— Roy Blount, Jr

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

— John Webster

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

— John Updike

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

— Walter Lippmann

“Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.”

— Sunday Adelaja

American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders.

— Matthew Desmond

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

— Michael Ignatieff

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

— Swami Vivekananda

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

— Confucius

The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.

— Walter Russell

I think what's good is that men are now realizing that life is not a buffet where you just get to pick…

— Phoebe Robinson

“If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

— Marianne Williamson

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

— George Santayana

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

— Henry Steele Commager

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

— Errico Malatesta

Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything.

— Michelle Paver

“Whenever you make up your mind to go into solitude, you must decide first of all what you want to go and…

— Sunday Adelaja

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can…

— Will Durant

“For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

— Voltaire

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson