Greatness Quotes · Page 142

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

— Anonymous

Greatness is empowered in a system where you pass the ball, not pound it.

— B. J. Armstrong

Everything really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

— Albert Einstein

A man is a king, a king is a ruler. A ruler is 12 inches, still think ur a man?

— Anonymous

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

— John Dryden

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

— Bhartrhari

“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

All men are wired to be in control of what's going on in their life.

— Carson Wentz

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it's a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple…

— Barry Trotz

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to…

— Sunday Adelaja

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business…

— Henry David Thoreau

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors.…

— Voltaire

Men - not all men but a good majority of the ones I have known and worked with - tend to think…

— Emily V. Gordon

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

— Confucius

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Greatness is the born of ordinary men who decided to work extraordinarily hard.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we…

— Merle Shain

“To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Most people on the face of the earth do not know what to do with their time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness,…

— Anonymous

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

— Rita Ora

Don't try to beat the greatest. Just try and be the greatest,by beating your Yesterday's with Today's.

— Egba Terry

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the…

— William Gilmore Simms

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

— Mary Renault

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

— Albert Einstein

“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every…

— G.K. Chesterton

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

— Charles Tomlinson

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

— Charles de Gaulle

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you…

— Bernard Hopkins

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a…

— Heber J. Grant

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

— Melvyn Douglas

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!”

— Sunday Adelaja

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

— Peter S. Beagle

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is…

— Mary Renault