Greatness Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greatness Late Morning
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves… — Stanwood Cobb Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one". I… — John A. Passaro Copy Share
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
