Best greatness & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”

“For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.”

Heart Reason Greatness Genius Built Enormous Hunters Carts Hares

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.”

Reason Tree Greatness Highest Dread Thunder Lofty

Book:The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians

Source: The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians

“Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.”

Knows Men Reason Too Much Greatness Servant

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that.”

“Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.”

Men Reason Feelings Wish Levels Human Nature Greatness Stronger Beast Convince Contempt Convincing Baseness Greatness Of Man

Author:Blaise Pascal

“That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.”

Firsts Believe Reason Able I Believe Prayer Greatness Embrace Creator I Believe In Superiors Believe In Yourself Believe In God Believe In You

Author:Cathy Hughes

“You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.”

Thinking Reason Kids Class Rich Wise Greatness Horse Ass Presidency Humane Traitor Franklin Resourceful Rich Kids

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you to believe that America was only great for a few people as founded, because, as founded, America was gigantically discriminating against the poor and against people of color and against transgenders. Yeah, I've read the Federalist Papers, you know. James Madison, he wasn't popular with the transgender group back then. Did you know that? You won't find the word. It was not a factor, the way they have attempted to modernize things here today. It's just lies.”

“You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. With George Bush, that charge would never stick.”

Thinking Reason Kids Rich Wise Greatness Ass Traitor Franklin Resourceful Rich Kids

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.”

Love Humans Reason Feelings Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Quality Greatness Built Relation Human Relations Vagueness Exact Sciences

Author:Amelia Barr

“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”

“In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.”

Source: The Kingdom of this World

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”

People Inspirational Writing Reason Truth Form Literature Interesting Fiction Study Greatness Telling The Truth Fiction Writing Humiliating

Author:Jim Rohn

“That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.”

Humans Persons Reason America Conditions Greatness Survival Dignity Weak Tests Ultimate Abortion Unborn Defenseless

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that the public will experience a catastrophic loss if he does not complete his novel. The public is just clamoring to give him his fame. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by”

Ifs Giving Writing Believe Doe Book Reason Loss Powerful Fiction Novel Greatness Keys Fame Evidence Dare Delusion Great Writers

Author:Leonard Bishop

“And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.”

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

“The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.”

Men Reason Motivational Suffering Hate Violence Greatness Humility Dignity Prejudice Tolerance Violent Tyranny Resistance Arrogance Humiliation Non Violent Non Violent Resistance

Author:Liu Xia

“What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.”

Self Reason Purpose Values Three Answers Self Esteem Greatness Capacity Fundamentals Esteem Live By

Author:Ayn Rand

“The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.”

Persons Reason Use Today Christian Church Streets Greatness Divine Worship Instinct Reason Why Majesty Very Powerful Greatness Of God

Author:J. I. Packer

“For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don’t matter.”

Mean Matter Reason Fighting Greatness Hero Honor Willingness Things That Matter True Hero Eggshells

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.”

World Stills Reason Done Easy Difficult Plans Achieve This World Greatness Planning Sage Difficult Things Achieve Greatness

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.”

Ifs Knows Men World Want Life Believe Long Made Stills Reason Desire Belief Loses Accepting Forever Greatness Mines Depends Truth Is Battle Destruction Blind Refuse Abandon Deaf Desire To Live

Author:Ayn Rand

“If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.”

Ifs Reason Home Greatness Loud Memorable

Author:Seth Godin

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