Top 1200 Greatness Of Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.

In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a work of art.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

It is so important for children to know that being a little bit wobbly or 'different' doesn't stop somebody from achieving greatness!

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to man. The whole world is discovering that all mankind is one and that the unity of man is real – not just an abstract idea. Mankind is beginning to discover that the hurt of any man hurts every man, and, conversely, the uplift of any man uplifts every man

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

There is no easy way to greatness in any venue. But if you work hard, good things will inevitably happen to you.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.