Greatness Quotes · Page 164

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

— J. I. Packer

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he…

— Rita Rudner

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

— William Ellery Channing

“There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.”

— Anthony Trollope

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

— Augustus William Hare

“Of course, 85 per cent won’t be enough by itself to convict him, but it makes him someone you want to take…

— S.J. Bolton

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

— Aleister Crowley

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best,…

— Frederick Buechner

“When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then giver views to passion, without that…

— David Hume

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your…

— Wendy Beckett

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness…

— Anonymous

“Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills,…

— Sunday Adelaja

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a…

— Clinton Rossiter

“In contrast to the world, God’s economy measures greatness not in terms of ability or accomplishments but in the vitality and integrity…

— Kenneth D. Boa

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

— Damien Hirst

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

— Nathanael Emmons

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

— Walter Scott

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

— Fabius Maximus

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

— Ayn Rand

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

— Keith Ferrazzi

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all

— William Brighty Rands

“When you succeed you party. When you fail you ponder. Greatness comes from pondering.”

— Tony Robbins

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

— Cassandra Clare

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men…

— G. H. Hardy

I know a Dozen of a successful men...but 80% of them are God's fearing man.

— Steven Hmangte

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

— Debbie Ford

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

— Dwight L. Moody

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

— Daniel H. Pink

“You’re destined for greatness,” Life said. “But first, I’m going to make you cry.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Greatness is not a flower of easy life, but it grows in the adversity of life.”

— Debasish Mridha

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise..

— Wallace D. Wattles

“You are not supposed to be here in this world and not leave something for which you could be called great.”

— Sunday Adelaja