Best greatness & father Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.”

Children Father Greatness Weakness Faults Symbols Perceive Germany Despise

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.”

Heart Real Self Country Home Father Simple Greatness Humility Crosses Far Away Indifferent Inner Life Magnificence

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Different Self Father Boys Greatness Strive Unhappy Postcards

Author:Brock Clarke

“Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds and tasks of service and sacrifice that constitute the giving or losing of one's life for others and for the Lord. They include gaining a knowledge of our Father in Heaven and of the gospel. They also include bringing others into the faith and fellowship of his kingdom. These things do not usually receive the attention or the adulation of the world.... .”

“Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.”

Men Father Lord Greatness Errors Excellence Acknowledge Superstitions

Book:The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

“To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.”

Men Should Trying Wells Kind Mother Father Common Successful Greater Greatness Tasks Substitutes Artificial Discouraged Statesmen Truest True Ones Daily Tasks Artificial Life

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.”

Ifs Wells Looks Enough Suffering Father Wish Greatness Duty Fine Quiet Reputation Luxury Free Will Heroism Physicians Behalf Candor Respectability True Greatness

Author:Libba Bray

“Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.”

People Writing Said Book Mother Father Greatness Trump Goodness Live Your Life They Said Valentine History Books Writing History

Book:Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead

Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”

Source: Gaudy Night

“Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not the first. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”

Knows World Firsts Children Has Beens Said Two Book Father Sides Born Air Land Greatness Kings Madness Breaths Coins Two Sides Toss Targaryens

Author:George R. R. Martin

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”

Men Heart Children Doe Wisdom Father Loses Positive Greatness Christmas Great Men Fatherhood Ordinary Life Father Son Ordinary Man Inner Child Achieve Greatness Lost Heart

Book:The works of mencius

Source: The works of mencius

“He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.”

“Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.”

Wells May Real Mother Father Common Successful Greater Mankind Greatness Extraordinary Real Life Remarkable Unusual Statesmen Truest

Book:That We Might Have Joy

Source: That We Might Have Joy

“The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.”

“The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.”

Hard Life Is Father Sides Possibility Greatness Huge Messages Grateful Quitting Kicks Life Is Hard I Am Grateful Payoff Best Of Me

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heaven's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?”

Ifs Should Children Father Heaven Lord Greatness Honor Glory Angel Sight Our Father Juniors Father In Heaven Glory And Honor

Author:L. Tom Perry

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