Greatness Quotes · Page 118

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

— Charles Spurgeon

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

— Paulo Coelho

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

— Albert Claude

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

— Thomas Paine

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

— Heath L'Estrange

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they…

— John Campbell Shairp

“Some People Will Try To Tear You Down. You Can Either Change The World Or You Can Just Please The People Around…

— Wesam Fawzi

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little,…

— Eduardo Galeano

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission,…

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this…

— Steven Adler

“Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do…

— Kaiden Blake

“This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.”

— Shaun Hick

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

All the guys on 'Breaking Bad' are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.

— Laura Fraser

You are powerful, awesome & beautiful. You have greatness in you, use it. Be all you can be & share it¦¦ Blessings

— Ricardo Housham

“Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Donald Trump doesn't pose a single threat to the greatness of America.

— Rush Limbaugh

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the…

— Zig Ziglar

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people live upset life's then die forever representing greatness.

— Denise Clark

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A great man is doing you enough good when he isn't doing you harm.”

— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

“Sometimes a man doesn't want to be strong. Sometimes a man just wants to be human.”

— Victoria Christopher Murray

“The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Men is not the creatures of circumstances. Circumstances are creatures of men.

— Benjamin Israeli

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

— Zhuangzi

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

— Ralph Ransom

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

— Winston Churchill

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

— Horace Bushnell

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

— Pope Benedict XVI

A man would never undertake great things, could he be amused by small.

— Dr Samuel Johnson

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

— Anonymous

“The sum of our greatness lies not in asking “what do I want to do?” but rather “who do I want to…

— Lolly Daskal

“...every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.”

— Louis de Bernières

“Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.”

— Sunday Adelaja