Best greatness & grows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”

Mind Children Certain Grows Rocks Greatness Difficulty Aim Proportion Wrestling Nurse Harsh Athletic Foster Children Stature Impediments Grappling

Author:Kobe Bryant

“Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.”

People Ifs Matter Past Grows Stuff Water Issues Alive Greatness Divine Like You Garden Seasons Bones Concrete Harvest Dead People Playing Around

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.”

Men Has Beens Said Grows Events Greatness Rate Great Men Estimation Great Events

Book:Robert Burns

Source: Robert Burns

“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.”

“Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.”

Mind Fall Grows Greatness Draws Fortune Envy Vain Contempt Moderation Boast Good Fortune Giddy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.”

Dream Desire Hope Grows Space Greatness Ambition Roots Your Dreams

Book:Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.”

Kind May Matter Whole Earth Remember Grows Greatness Depth Casts Tolerance Dust Bosoms Umpires Rubbish Wheat Straws Sweeping Barns Composure Shrouds

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out.”

People Ifs Self Nations Grows Forget Party Talking Greatness Righteous Self Righteous Keep Talking

Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

Want Said Motivational Action Death Grows Kindness Greatness Flower Madness Thoughtful Love And Kindness Achieve Greatness Gardening And God Thistles Summer Garden

Book:The Lincoln treasury

Source: The Lincoln treasury

“Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”

Life Inspirational May Motivational Grows Easy Stuff Greatness Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship

Author:Jim Rohn

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”

Men Grows Born Greatness Great Men Achieve Greatness Inspiring Movie Valuable Life Hollywood Life

Book:The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.”

Doe Grows Difficult Greater Childhood Greatness Cease This Life Recalls Vantage Point

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.”

Trying Humans Doe Has Beens Facts Today Life Is Grows Greatness Divine Aim Income Being True Human Life Welfare Contribution Combat Controversy Overflow

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”

“Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!”

Ifs Persons Made Grows Can Do Greatness Potential For Greatness

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.”

People Giving Facts Faces Opportunity Grows Challenges Greater Greatness Produce Birth Comfort Difficulty Adversity Ease Facts Of Life

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“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.”

“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.”

“Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.”

Law Universe Individual Grows Greatness Creatures Strive Strife Extremity

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.”

Men World May Grows Tree Greatness Plant Seeds Forests Vain Soil Yams Maize

Book:No Longer at Ease

Source: No Longer at Ease

“As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.”

Thinking Littles Grows Greatness Madmen

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.”

Matter Kids Grows Growing Up Greatness Be You

Author:Seth Godin

“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.”

Way Inspiration Grows Darkness Greatness Sweet Despair Madness Sake Lovely Questioning Malice Turmoil Impotence Erudition

Author:Adam Zagajewski

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