Greatness Quotes · Page 149

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use…

— Thomas Wolfe

“What I described last,” said Francisco, “is any man who proclaims his right to a single penny of another man’s effort.”

— Ayn Rand

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we…

— Jay Abraham

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

— Joshua Reynolds

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable,…

— Og Mandino

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet…

— Oprah Winfrey

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and…

— Francis Bacon

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the…

— Lewis Howes

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent…

— Lewis Tappan

“Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The…

— Chairman Mao

“A gentleman owned his blame and his shame and in this case, Jacob claimed both.”

— Ruth Logan Herne

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

— George Washington

Men are like fish...neither would get in trouble if they kept their mouths shut.

— Anonymous

In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

— Pamela Anderson

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

— Matthew Hayden

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

— Laozi

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

— Edmund Burke

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

— Winston Churchill

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

— Orison Swett Marden

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him…

— Henry Fonda

At the end of the day, you know, Keith Thurman is just not a 9-to-5 kind of guy.

— Keith Thurman

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The thing about Steven Seagal is that he clearly wants to be a great person, but he just doesn't know how.

— El-P

“One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Galaxy! When can a man know he is not a puppet? How can a man know he is not a puppet?”

— Isaac Asimov

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

— Theodor Adorno

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

— Ulysses S. Grant

... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky