Greatness Quotes · Page 148

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

— Anton Webern

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

— Thucydides

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

— Saint Augustine

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

— Andy Andrews

“Greatness must be measured by the transfer of success to future generations”

— Mlungisi Simelane

“The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. - The Greatness of Saturn”

— Robert Svoboda

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

— Sabrina Jeffries

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

— Shaunie O'Neal

“If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you…

— Sunday Adelaja

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God…

— Phillips Brooks

“A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge…

— Helene Wecker

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes…

— Oswald Spengler

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there…

— Walt Disney

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe…

— Robert Boyle

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and…

— Thucydides

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

— Sheri S. Tepper

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

— Ben Bernanke

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

— Oriana Fallaci

Even if we cant be together in the end Im still grateful you were part of my life at one point.

— Anonymous

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

— Pierre Corneille

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while…

— Sunday Adelaja

This is not the time for grieving, this is yet another chance to effect the change you much desire to see.

— Ore Abayomi

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

— Samuel Johnson

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

— Henry Hazlitt

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

— Henry Adams

“Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, Though great ones are their object.”

— William Shakespeare

“Without order in your life, you will realize that you will only be busy but without commensurate results.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn…

— Andre Malraux

“But men who dress as goats and gallivant through sex riots playing flutes tend not to be the most logical people.”

— Jaye Wells

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

— Alan Cohen

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve... You only need a heart full of grace.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

— Kenneth Waltz

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit…

— Pindar

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

— Andre Maurois