Greatness Quotes - Page 6

To win, you have to believe you will win.

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way.

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing.

The outward manifestation of greatness is that we excite devotion and love in our work.

If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.

Big dreamers achieve more than big doubters.

No monument was ever erected in favor of a critic.

So because you are converting it, you are reproducing your life that way.

The best way of creating motivation is to do something. If you take action, motivation will follow

Have the mind of a swam, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swam, and the soul of a dove.

He was searching for something greater, if there is a thing greater than love, and he could not settle until he found it.

Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm.

You don't have to reach for greatness if it is already in you.

You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.

Never give up. Go and nurture. Go and nurture audacious goals. Let your greatness blossom.

Your purpose distinguishes you from others; not your talent, IQ, race, job, hobbies, or gender, as these are held in common with many others.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.

The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success.

Questions control how you think, and thinking is the root contributor to the results and outcomes of your life

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to keep yourself inspired.

It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excites him, he is hotter on the trail, he has a better instinct for what is truly alive in him. The worse writer may seem to be more sensible in many ways, but he is less sensible in this vital matter: he cannot distinguish what is full of life from what is only half full or empty of it. And so his writing is less alive, and as a writer he is less alive, and in writing, as in everything else, nothing matters but life.

God in you is the greatness in you.

Like any formula, success has parts and therefore it is expressed in three ways – achievement (a science), fulfilment (an art) and lifestyle (an act). All three have to be present for the formula to be complete.

The elevator can take you up to greater heights ONLY IF you take positive action by pressing the button. Greatness in life is all about the right choices you make.

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

You can become great by multiplying yourself through time conversion into different products but that will only be possible if you understand the value of time.

You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people.

To be happy you need to take charge of your life by choosing to live in a beautiful state always because others might not have a plan for you.

It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.

You cannot become the greatest without at least a gr- and a test inside of you

You are only great to the degree you impacted others with your life.

Words have the power to open up newer realities, rarefy tour performance, inspire fresh possibilities and free humanity.

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes.

Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

Neither boost about your own strength nor dignity but the sacred grace of God.

Doing things the right way now is the cost of your future.

Measure your life by how much of your time you have converted.

The path to success lies in finding something you have a passion for, care deeply about, and are willing to apply all of your energy and focus to.

And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve electrical apparatus or pedal through Sweden on a bicycle! And we solicit great men to write books promoting the cult of other great men! It's really very funny, and worth the price of admission! It will all end up with every village having his own great man - a lawyer, a novelist, and a polar explorer of immense stature! And the world will become wonderfully flat and simple and easy to master . . .

Great deeds begin in the mind,extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.

It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

If you pay the price for success, you win. If you avoid payment, you lose. It’s really that simple.

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it.

The pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

By bringing the future into the present, you can do something about it usually before it gets too late.

People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them. Don’t be afraid to reach out.

Don’t let your circumstances and the events in your life rob you of the joy of celebration.

In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.

Seize every opportunity and make it great.

Your vision helps you filter your decisions or choices and directs your actions.

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.