Greatness Quotes · Page 163

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

— Timbaland

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but…

— George Bernard Shaw

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

— Leonard Peikoff

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the…

— Ayn Rand

“Invest your time and add value to your life because that is the only way to greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

— William Halsey

“Only those who break the shackles of convention can ever achieve greatness.”

— Barry S. Brunswick

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

— Viktor E. Frankl

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or…

— Orison Swett Marden

“There is nothing too mysterious about Ray Porter, at least not in the usual sense of the word. He is single, he…

— Steve Martin

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face…

— Salman Rushdie

“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness…

— Bill Hopkins

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

— Frank Bruni

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors…

— Walther Rathenau

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David…

— Robert Breault

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

— Gloria Naylor

“If you have no product to show for your time, you are a time waster.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

— Charlie Chaplin

“Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.”

— Dan Pearce

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

— Robert Collier

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

— Epictetus

Humility plus the fear of God equl's to greatness, riches, happiness etc…add ur own…

— Gordons

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

— Laozi

“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, those who achieve greatness are those who decide to achieve greatness.”

— Darrin Donnelly

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to…

— Soren Kierkegaard

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

— Marianne Moore

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People who have their dreams fulfilled are those who go outside their comfort zones to fight for their dreams.”

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

— Henry John Heinz

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

— Claude M. Bristol

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

— Henry Miller

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

— Edna Ferber

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

— John Henry Newman

“No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night.”

— Sunday Adelaja