“Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. — Fabius Maximus Copy Share Image
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death.… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today.… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
“People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness. They purchased that greatness but only through the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
Humility plus the fear of God equl's to greatness, riches, happiness etc…add ur own… — Gordons Copy Share Image
What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge? — Laozi Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, those who achieve greatness are those who decide to achieve greatness.” — Darrin Donnelly Copy Share Image
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“People who have their dreams fulfilled are those who go outside their comfort zones to fight for their dreams.” — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character. — Henry John Heinz Copy Share Image
Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion… — Thalia Copy Share Image
Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who… — Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft Copy Share Image
"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
