Quotes about greatness
greatness college young
What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness. Henry Steele Commager
greatness men deeds
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. Jose Marti
greatness poverty faces
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Khalil Gibran
greatness destruction seeds
What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness. Kevin Allen
greatness men two
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. Jonathan Swift
greatness painful neighbor
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
greatness mindfulness here-and-now
Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now. Napoleon Hill
greatness giving trying
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
greatness men spheres
In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. Napoleon Bonaparte
greatness perfection achievement
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. Lois McMaster Bujold
greatness men broke
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. Lord Byron
greatness challenges different
We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us. Lou Holtz
greatness years practice
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. Malcolm Gladwell
greatness ideas people
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition. Magic Johnson
greatness space spheres
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. Maimonides
greatness men mind
Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
greatness simplicity wealth
There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth. Mahatma Gandhi
greatness poverty members
A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
greatness men light
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
greatness vanity needs
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
greatness men tragedy
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
greatness lasting
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
greatness vocabulary phrases
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. Og Mandino
greatness men tests
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness. Orison Swett Marden
greatness men nerves
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
greatness order focus
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout. Epictetus
greatness men cities
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
greatness lows surpassing
It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. Herodotus
greatness men soul
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. Heinrich Heine
greatness arrogant true-greatness
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant. Henry Ward Beecher
greatness men air
The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
greatness action common
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action. Johann Kaspar Lavater
greatness laughing mirth
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.