Greatness Quotes · Page 160

“It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“We all have potential for greatness in ourselves. The only thing we need to do is to find it.”

— Daniyal Akram

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great.…

— Chris Rock

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

— Jean Genet

“God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

— Elbert Hubbard

The degree of greatness is directly proportional to the degree of hard working.

— Herojit Philem

I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift…

— Linda Perry

“Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is…

— Steve Maraboli

My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds…

— Bennie Wallace

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying,…

— John Locke

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie…

— William Shakespeare

In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing…

— Swami Vivekananda

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of…

— A.W. Tozer

“You must choose what you do with your time. You must not just do things because everybody is doing them.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover…

— Samuel Richardson

“Dreams of changing the world could only be realized by properly investing time into learning.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

— James Lane Allen

Great players find away to make the play no matter the circumstances but greatness is earned, not given...plain and simple.

— Anonymous

He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

— Leon Brown

No man is born without faults; he is the best who is influenced by the fewest.

— Vikrant Parsai

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

— Pierre Corneille

We don't bar no plexes, we way bigger than other men though. The diamond deuces on tinted windows, we in the wind…

— UGK

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

— Garrison Keillor

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“You win in life when you are able to convert all your disappearing time or the disappearing life into products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

— Paul Geraldy

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

— Cass Gilbert

“Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have.”

— Amber L. Johnson

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them

— Epictetus

“The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

— Walter Dill Scott

“Brendan's not the guy you use to figure your shit out, Brendan's the guy you hope you get once you have figured…

— Nia Forrester

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

— Henry Ward Beecher

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

— Voltaire

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

— Mahatma Gandhi