Greatness Quotes · Page 144

Truly great people don't go around telling everyone how great they are, everyone already knows it.

— Anonymous

“A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.”

— James Edwin Gunn

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no…

— Adam Smith

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

— Francis Picabia

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“There are two types of men. Those with self-control. And those without.”

— Karina Bush

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in…

— Dorothy Gish

The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no…

— Christina Rossetti

“It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives…

— Sunday Adelaja

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true…

— Philip K. Dick

“The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you…

— Sunday Adelaja

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly…

— Henry David Thoreau

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take…

— Brandi Chastain

“Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.”

— Gemma Burgess

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

What the day brings is not the doing of any man, but how you respond to it is entirely up to you.

— Ore Abayomi

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

— William Wordsworth

“To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your…

— Sunday Adelaja

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

— Kara Goucher

“The higher you set the bar, the better positioned you are to reach greatness!”

— Yadi J

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

— Ignatius of Antioch

There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do.

— Ed Reed

“When a man stops searching for faults outside and starts creating greatness inside, life slowly rewards his purpose.”

— Srinivas Mishra

Remember, when you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at it they'll tell you.

— Mario Tomasello

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

— Voltaire

You do not not know your true limits until you choose to overcome the fear that holds you back from greatness.

— Anonymous

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

— Bill Vaughan

“Every second, minute you invest or maximize is a step closer to your greatness”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I never knew the extent of God’s greatness until I hang on to His glorious hope.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You are in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the inconceivable greatness of a world.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

— Walter Scott

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

— Maxwell Struthers Burt

“What we do in life echoes in eternity. This is how greatness is made.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Greatness cannot be attained by wasting time on frivolities of life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It's by acknowledging the greatness in others that we become great.”

— Papaz iNtalyanez