Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.