Top 1200 Greatness Of Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

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.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

All I want is greatness for West Virginia, and I'll work with anyone who is ready to help me turn this state around.

When I started my podcast, 'The School of Greatness,' one of the top three people I wanted to get on the show was Tony Robbins.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

I think greatness is found within mundanity, those boring little ticks throughout the day.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

I think it's important, no matter your profession, to never become complacent and always strive for greatness.

I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.