Greatness Quotes - Page 42

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.

Greatness is not measured by what you have, but by what you give.

A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles.

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person—the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments—is the true measure of lasting greatness.

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

You just don’t allow time to while away but you take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

You have not accomplished anything significant if no one envies you.

Too many people want to have mountaintop experiences at rock-bottom prices and that just doesn't work. Greatness doesn't come at a discount. If you want true greatness, you have to pay the full price for it.

To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.

Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.

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

A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.

You can become great through the power of time

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

The fullness of God’s grace fills us with power for every good work.

If there is anything you need in life that you haven’t gotten, it is because you are yet to pay for it via the currency of time.

Anyone who constantly makes you unhappy belongs in someone else’s world, not yours.

Gratitude isn’t innate. It’s a habit that has to be learned through practice.

The greatest thing is to live a daring life.

To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes

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

Leverage the pain of excuses into the seeds of greatness.

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success.

To work for salary is to mortgage your life.

Don’t try, be happy.

To achieve greatness it simply starts with self-belief.

His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.

To become successful you have to dream big. Small dreams don’t have the magic to stir up passion and greatness within you.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

God's grace is the power for greatness.

The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value of time.

You will need to invest every bit of your time into your destiny and purpose if you truly desire to be great.

Character is greatness inside out.

Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.

If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly doing one single thing in a day, you will be amazed how best you will become in that thing after a given number of years.

Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.

Visions are fulfilled in God's timing.

Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything is up to you. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing.

Opportunity has got numerous appointments to keep, so it can't be held to ransom at your doorstep. Just a knock is enough for a man who is alert and expectant!

There’re two ways to fail in life: Choosing not to try or quitting too soon. You were dumb enough to show up so you’re left with one.

Take control of your life and future and become the master of your destiny by making one good decision at a time.

It is in deep waters that God teaches us to swim.

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

To achieve success, ignore doubt; fame, ignore haters; greatness, ignore fear; and immortality, ignore hardship.

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

The products your life must have could be in the form books you have written from the values you have added to yourself.

Happiness is an art. Choose your way of expressing it.

Your brightest light will take you to your greatest heights.

I love to challenge myself to greater heights.

Pursue great things.You are destiny for greatness.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time.

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

DO! Don’t be concerned about what you are doing – do it so wholeheartedly that the very doing becomes a bliss. And don’t think of great things, there is no such thing as great or small. Don’t think that you are to do great things, play great music, paint great paintings, that you are to become a Picasso or a Van Gogh, or something else – a great writer, a Shakespeare, or a Milton. There is nothing – no great things, no small things. There are great men and small men but things are not great and small. And a great man is one who brings his greatness to every small thing that he is doing: he eats in a great way, he walks in a great way, he sleeps in a great way. He brings the quality of greatness to everything.And what is greatness? Nature.... Nothing is greater than nature.