Greatness Quotes
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VoltaireVoltaire The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The mind is the greatest bomb.
Marilyn MansonMarilyn Manson MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we’re man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Ziggy MarleyZiggy Marley To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that’s about all that’s required.
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey It is a great thing to know your vices.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
Coretta Scott KingCoretta Scott King