Greatness Quote by Robert Jordan

“Some men,” she said, not raising her eyes from his hand, “choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always…

— Robert Jordan

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and…

— Laozi

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

— Phillips Brooks

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

— Horace Bushnell

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if…

— Charles Spurgeon

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

— Charles Darwin

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by…

— Samuel Smiles

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will,…

— Saint Augustine

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled…

— Leo Tolstoy