Greatness Quotes · Page 176

“This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with…

— Sunday Adelaja

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

— Epictetus

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

— Stephen Fry

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for…

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

— Socrates

“I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people’s dreams.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

— Twyla Tharp

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

— Jim Harbaugh

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they…

— Herman Melville

I'm not looking forward to a specific person per se; I'm just excited to meet everyone. I respect greatness and I'm just…

— Arian Foster

I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart…

— John Woolman

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda)…

— Chanakya

“The sullen workman who is afraid of being imposed upon is secretly convinced of his own inferiority--when he has to say, or…

— Sydney J. Harris

“Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would…

— Christopher Marlowe

I am setting the intention today to allow greatness into every aspect of my life. I am tuned in to allow all…

— Ritu Ghatourey

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

— William Shakespeare

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to…

— Lawrence Dale Bell

“Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute…

— Bob P. Buford

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

— Jocelyn Murray

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both…

— Charles Caleb Colton

At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.

— James Gray

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

— Mark Twain

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

— James Buchanan

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

— Harold Geneen

What people remember is the greatness players achieved. With that said, Favre is always going to be remembered as a Green Bay…

— Jerome Bettis

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

— Laozi

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

— Ovid

“The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer…

— Jeremy Collier

“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“On the path toward greatness, the only thing that matters is that you consistently dedicate yourself to improving.”

— Al Kavadlo

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

— Oscar Wilde

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

— Confucius

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

— Joseph P. Farrell