Greatness Quotes - Page 11

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

Champions get up! When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you!

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.