Greatness Quotes · Page 162

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

— Anonymous

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

— Ernst Fischer

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;”

— Aristotle

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires”

— Richard Wright

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.”

— Sunday Adelaja

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

— Lew Wallace

“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service... You only need a heart full…

— Martin Luther King Jr

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary…

— John Locke

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

— Walther Rathenau

The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support…

— John Bunyan

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success…

— Carlisle Floyd

“People don’t become great and successful by just having potentials, they become great and successful by converting their potentials. Potentials by themselves…

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him…

— Stephen King

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them…

— Thomas Sprat

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

— Horace

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of…

— Ahmet Ertegun

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

— Vincent de Paul

A respectful man is a man that's cares for others and puts them first

— Anonymous

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

— Samuel Johnson

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

— Woody Allen

“Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they were always puzzles,”

— Noah Gordon

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the…

— Boris Pasternak

“The greatest things that have ever happened in this world, had their genesis in the wake of special relationships of rare destiny.”

— Bryant McGill

“Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing…

— Sunday Adelaja

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

— Livy

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

— Anne Frank

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

— Eden Phillpotts

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

— Kristin Cashore

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

— Djuna Barnes

“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.”

— Robert E. Howard

One of the hardest things about greatness is recognizing it while it's happening.

— Anonymous

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit…

— Napoleon Hill

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man…

— Anonymous

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

— Samuel Johnson

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

— Fitzhugh Dodson

“You can never truly become great if you do not discover your purpose in life.”

— Sunday Adelaja