Greatness Quotes · Page 181

“To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

— Lew Wallace

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

— Horace

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of…

— Ahmet Ertegun

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

— Vincent de Paul

A respectful man is a man that's cares for others and puts them first

— Anonymous

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

— Samuel Johnson

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather…

— Neal Shusterman

The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the…

— Galileo Galilei

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Do not look at your weakness or your small size; look at the Lord and His greatness that He will demonstrate through…

— Rick Joyner

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how…

— Philip Jose Farmer

To say someone is the greatest, I just don't want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is…

— Shannon Sharpe

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the…

— Magdalena de Pazzi

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken…

— Olaf Stapledon

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

— Woody Allen

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the…

— Boris Pasternak

“The greatest things that have ever happened in this world, had their genesis in the wake of special relationships of rare destiny.”

— Bryant McGill

“Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they were always puzzles,”

— Noah Gordon

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

— Livy

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing…

— Sunday Adelaja

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

— Anne Frank

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

— Eden Phillpotts

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

— Kristin Cashore

“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.”

— Robert E. Howard

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

— Djuna Barnes

One of the hardest things about greatness is recognizing it while it's happening.

— Anonymous

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit…

— Napoleon Hill

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man…

— Anonymous

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

— William Ellery Channing

“There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.”

— Anthony Trollope

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he…

— Rita Rudner

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

— Augustus William Hare

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

“Of course, 85 per cent won’t be enough by itself to convict him, but it makes him someone you want to take…

— S.J. Bolton

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

— Aleister Crowley