Greatness Quotes - Page 8

Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential.

If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.

Every man must choose what they want to do with their time to avoid regret in the future.

Measure your life by the value you have added.

Brave cubs become fierce lions.

You become the master of what you master.

Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material.

Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too.

Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment — a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.

This is my toughest time but the greatest.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Much of your happiness and joy in life will come from your ability to get along with people –but more importantly your decision to walk in love every day.

Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.

Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you.

You can only become great through the power of time conversion.

Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

Strength comes from ignoring your critics.Power comes from mastering your fears.Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.

Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.'Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears.Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.

Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.

You become greater than what you conquer within.

I will be all that I am capable of being.

I am not in pursuit of wealth, neither am I in want of fame! I am not after applauds that shall turn into slaps after a least slip. I do not need absolute acceptance or absolute rejection; neither am I after a total approval nor disapproval! I am in pursuit of wisdom! I am in pursuit of a true and a solemn dignity; I am in pursuit of nurturing a true and a great destiny in my journey to the final destination! I do not seek for carnal reward, but if the world will reward me, it shall be for good; If the world will accept who I am as I am and what I stand for, fine, if not, I only look up to my Heavenly Father to accomplish a solemn duty for a solemn reward!

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.

Time melts away in every passing moment.

Your life is about you and your God alone.

Solitude is the greatest treasure and through it, you can rebuild your life, reorder your life and solve life’s problems.

Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day.

Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.

You too can buy greatness by converting your time into greatness through hard work.

Believe it or not, I'm stronger than any belief, stereotype, profile, or idea you have of me. I'm driven and self-made with a perception unique to my own. You'll hate that and say I'm not special. I'll allow you to believe it because deep down, you already know I am. My name's Charles Lee. Bound for greatness. Destined to soar.

The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.

If I am a great man then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

The instrument through which time is converted is called work.

You are on your way to building a significant life when your service to others stops focusing on the now and the immediate future and instead focuses on generations to come and how your actions today will impact them long after you are gone.

Never go into battle for your ego, Learn to battle for something much greater.

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear

Vision inspires and clarifies what needs to be done in the present to achieve the promise of the future.

You are a manager nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing. Yes, your choices. As a manager of your own life, your choices are your assets. They form the pivot for the doom or boom of the business of your life. Some will be great managers and others will collapse the business of their lives by their choices or stay in mediocrity with the business of their lives.

Greatness needs courage (above all) and willpower, charisma, intelligence and creativity but it also demands characteristics that we often associate with the least admirable people: reckless risk-taking, brutal determination, sexual thrill-seeking, brazen showmanship, obsession close to fixation and something approaching insanity. In other words, the qualities required for greatness and wickedness, for heroism and monstrosity are not too far distant from each other. The Norwegians alone have a word for this: stormannsgalskap – the madness of great men.

You are killing your life if you are just going through the traditions and routine of church services with no product to show for it.

Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them.

Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you'd believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.

Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.

If you must make your time productive, then begin to view time in its most urgent form; in seconds and in minutes.

You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams.

I love to challenge myself to greater heights.

Your business values can make you soar above the competition.

Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but to make each passing day productive.

You will fall short of achieving your goals if your focus is fragmented and your attention, energy, and concentration diversified.

Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams

If you are tired of walking to your destiny, sprint.

It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called his name - but I did not. There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.''I'd think there are degrees of greatness,' Adam said.'I don't think so,' said Samuel. 'That would be like saying there is a little bigness. No. I believe when you come to that responsibility the hugeness and you are alone to make your choice. On one side you have warmth and companionship and sweet understanding, and on the other - cold, lonely greatness. There you make your choice. I'm glad I chose mediocrity, but how am I to say what reward might have come with the other? None of my children will be great either, except perhaps Tom. He's suffering over the choosing right now. It's a painful thing to watch. And somewhere in me I want him to say yes. Isn't that strange? A father to want his son condemned to greatness! What selfishness that must be.

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back.

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman