#greatness

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#book-reading #gifts #greatnesstness #jaachynma #nobility

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#mediocrity #equality

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #sorrow #love

A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#greatness #passion #love

Begin where you are and what you are. ↗

— Russell H. Conwell

#greatness #inspiration #success #inspirational

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. ↗

— John Ruskin

#humility #men

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been ↗

— Criss Jami

#cliche #discovery #great-men #greatness #journey

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#success #men

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. ↗

— Hayley Williams

#greatness #inspiration #inspirational #problems #struggle

It takes a good man to prevent a catastrophe, and a great man to make use of one. ↗

— Richelieu Three Musketeers By Duma

#inspirational #politics #inspirational