Greatness Quotes · Page 179

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

— Eric Burns

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends.

— Ore Abayomi

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

— Muhammad Ali

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

— Saul Bellow

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

— Jack Johnson

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

— Andre Gide

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can…

— Thomas Hobbes

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration…

— Stanwood Cobb

“So the way to control your life is this; every minute you live, maybe you are in church; ask yourself “why am…

— Sunday Adelaja

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic…

— William C. Bryant

Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of…

— Sophocles

It's the type of thing where, if you gonna battle somebody to prove your greatness, you wanna go to somebody that shares…

— Big Daddy Kane

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that…

— Eckhart Tolle

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon em.

— Anonymous

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

— Aphra Behn

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

— Vince Lombardi

“Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

— Anonymous

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

— Ernst Fischer

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

— Anonymous

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

— Pindar

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

— Anonymous

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

— Peter Buffett

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

— Zig Ziglar

He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.

— Sergio Martinez

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

— Confucius

Love is when you look into someones eyes and see everything you need.

— Anonymous

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

— Abraham Lincoln

Now I've realized that every man has a certain nature. Some people prefer something

— Mak_786

Small minds cant comprehend big spirits. To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated, and misunderstood. Stay strong.

— Anonymous

“Begin to invest quality time. Start the conversion process and birth your products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

— Andre Maurois

“To bring order into this jangled sphere man must find its centre" Marshall McLuhan”

— Douglas Coupland

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

— Matthew Henry