All Quotes By Tag: Greatness
“The man that fights for every minute of his day is the wisest and freest of all men”
“The heart of wisdom is the heart that numbers or counts every minute”
“If you convert your time into training, you will be wise”
“A wise man is the one that is preoccupied with fighting for every minute or second of his life”
“If you fight to retain ownership of your time, then you are wise”
“You need to come to a place of maturity and realization that you are only free and wise when you begin to fight for your time”
“We learn from the pages of history who we are and who we have been. We learn from our greatness and our darkness. We cannot predict the future, but studying where we’ve been helps us better understand where we are.”
“When I visited George Bernard Shaw, in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about Ingersoll. During the course of the conversation, he told me that Ingersoll had made a tremendous impression upon him, and had exercised an influence upon him probably greater than that of any other man. He seemed particularly anxious to impress me with the importance of Ingersoll’s influence upon his intellectual endeavors and accomplishments.In view of this admission, what percentage of the greatness of Shaw belongs to Ingersoll? If Ingersoll’s influence upon so great an intellect as George Bernard Shaw was that extensive, what must have been his influence upon others?What seed of wisdom did he plant into the minds of others, and what accomplishments of theirs should be attributed to him? The world will never know.What about the countless thousands from whom he lifted the clouds of darkness and fear, and who were emancipated from the demoralizing dogmas and creeds of ignorance and superstition?What will be Ingersoll’s influence upon the minds of future generations, who will come under the spell of his magic words, and who will be guided into the channels of human betterment by the unparalleled example of his courageous life?The debt the world owes Robert G. Ingersoll can never be paid.”
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“Why the double standard? Why do so many of us easily believe in our children’s greatness but struggle to see our own?”
“Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.”
“Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.”
“Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we’d be happy with what we have.”
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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
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“Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary.”
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