Top 1200 Greatness Of Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.

The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

The left think they've got a monopoly on this silly idea that we are a nation of immigrants, America's greatness is traceable to its immigrants. I'm sorry. I don't buy that as a stand-alone idea anyway because really what they're trying to say with that is that America's greatness is due to America's diversity, and that has not a thing to do with it. American Greatness is because of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and our country.

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.