Greatness Quotes · Page 174

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

— Alexander Pope

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

— John Keegan

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods

— Margaret Chase Smith

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.

— Sri Chinmoy

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

— Hafez

Boys always find the easy way out, give them a hard relationship, and they will go on to the next. Gentlemen stay…

— Anonymous

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

— Joseph Addison

“If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time…

— Sunday Adelaja

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does…

— Herbert Read

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical…

— Theodore Parker

With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some…

— Arca

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power…

— Orison Swett Marden

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue…

— Jon Meacham

I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want,…

— Woody Allen

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building…

— Edwin Louis Cole

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

— William Shirley

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

— James L. Brooks

“Some are great. Some are born great. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And then there's you.”

— Reginald Dipwipple

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Always give your best; today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

— Anonymous

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort

— William Feather

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

— Mark Twain

Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

— Robert Cheeke

In the Future, Greatness will be lost in the vast sea of mediocrity.

— Liam E Turner

“A great nation is like a great man...He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts.”

— Tao Te Ching

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

— Francis Bacon

“I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook.”

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

— Charles Dickens

“It doesn't take great people to do great things, just unselfish ones.”

— Odb

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left…

— Harlan Mathews

A man's reputation is like a tower; hard to build, easy to collapse.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

— Samuel Johnson

“Men are so difficult - If they think you're trying to push them in a particular direction they dig in their heels…

— Lauren Henderson

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.”

— Jim Collins

Everyone is insecure. The trick is to make an attempt at greatness despite your insecurities.

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

— Niccolo Machiavelli