Greatness Quotes · Page 171

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

— John Owen

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

— Timothy Keller

“Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

— Aristotle

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

— Amy Chan

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

— George Bernard Shaw

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep…

— Sunday Adelaja

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under…

— Alain Gerbault

If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh,…

— Lu Xun

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if…

— Paulo Coelho

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

— James C. Collins

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by…

— Lord Byron

A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made

— Lord Byron

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

— Luc de Clapiers

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

— Iyanla Vanzant

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Greatness is measured by those who like to think. Success is measured by those who like to receive.”

— Christopher George Smithers

Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you

— Cus D'Amato

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

— Jane Austen

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

— Thomas Jefferson

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

— George Herbert

“If you refuse to accept nothing but the best you will often get it.”

— Lailah GiftyAkita

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

— Ezra Pound

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

— John Edgar Park

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power…

— Janet Morris

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

— Hermann Hesse

See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

— Laozi

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

— Edmund Burke

“To become better you, look nowhere else for greatness. All you need to improve and succeed are right there in you.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

— Otto Weininger

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are CHASING your DREAMS the grind never stops and your VISION is what leads you to GREATNESS.

— Anonymous

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

— Albert Schweitzer

“No one has truly become successful on life without having to organize his life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time”

— Sunday Adelaja