Greatness Quotes · Page 117

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

— Merrill Markoe

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

— Swami Vivekananda

Some people are born great. Some people achieve greatness and others¦ have greatness thrust upon them.

— Anonymous

“Men who had the capacity to apologize—and who knew the right words with which to do it—were few and far between.”

— Faith Hunter

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

— Plutarch

The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness.

— Lorii Myers

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

— Henry David Thoreau

“Become so good they can’t ignore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can’t stand you,…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“To step into your greatness is to acknowledge your innate thirst for adventure, growth, knowledge and wisdom and commit to doing the…

— Tony Jeton Selimi

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes…

— Winston Churchill

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. .…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here is to the men we've had. Some were good, some were bad. Some will run, some will follow. But it is…

— Hilary Storm

“We seek excellence before we seek understanding, wisdom before we gain knowledge, success before we understand hardwork; for this reason we need…

— Wayne Chirisa

Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us,…

— Libba Bray

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

— Brian Tracy

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

— William Mathews

Winners train until they can win. Champions train until they cannot fail!

— Anonymous

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

— William Shakespeare

Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.

— Steven Van Zandt

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

— Steve Rushin

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

— Charles Bukowski

God calls us not to be successful but to be significant. When we focus on Significance, success is often part of the…

— Anonymous

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant…

— Miguel de Unamuno

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

— Baltasar Gracian

“Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.”

— Agatha Christie

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

— Max Beerbohm

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are…

— Bernard Baruch

I am aiming for greatness because being good sometimes it's just not good enough.

— London Mond

Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly, for he freely fords who sees the shallows.

— Benjamin Franklin

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

— Irving Wallace

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be great flu that you have a glass,and there is…

— Anonymous

“You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men—and exceedingly stupid men, usually—do.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“A man who could do with doing things that will last forever and ever should do things right in this day and…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

— Henry Ford II

“Describing Robert Bunsen: As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was…

— Henry Enfield Roscoe

“The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.”

— Bryant McGill