Greatness Quotes · Page 177

“Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.”

— Anthony Liccione

“If you desire to be financially wealthy but don’t know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The major difference between the rich and the poor is in their time conversion”

— Sunday Adelaja

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

— Thomas Aquinas

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his…

— Robert Farrar Capon

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The difference between achieving greatness and failure, is that particular belief that you were born for something unordinary, that your contribution is…

— Tonny K. Brown

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a…

— A. A. Gill

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before…

— Jim Rohn

“If Pierre Bon-Bon had his failings--and what great man has not a thousand?--if Pierre Bon-Bon, I say, had his failings, they were…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no,…

— James A. Garfield

“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a…

— Sunday Adelaja

But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care…

— Steve Harvey

I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of…

— Fernando Pessoa

To be taken with love for a soul, God does not look on its greatness, but the greatness of its humility.

— St John Of The Cross

“Greatness is the quality of time you are able to invest into your purpose.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

— Graydon Carter

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

— Francis Bacon

“Solitude time is a period when you actually turn your time into some treasure.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective”

— Sunday Adelaja

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

— Meher Baba

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

— Christopher Caldwell

No one is born great, Great people develop themselves by aiming for the best and working hard for it.

— Anonymous

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

— Edmund Burke

“Do not allow your life to just fly out of your own hands. Do not allow your life to just disappear into…

— Sunday Adelaja

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

— Emile M. Cioran

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot. I dare you to maximize your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.

— Andrew Craig

“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

— Ayn Rand

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.

— Walter Russell

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

— Alan Cohen

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

— Thomas S. Monson

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

— Mignon McLaughlin