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PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something as a substitute because you feel unfulfilled. When you are absolutely fulfilled, why should you create, how can you create? Then you yourself have become the glory of creation, then the inner being itself is so perfect, nothing is needed.PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING. If the world is virtuous, all utilitarian goals will be lost. If the world is really virtuous there will be play and no production. Then the whole thing will just become a game. You enjoy it, but you don’t need it. A perfect sage is absolutely useless.
— Osho, The Empty Boat: Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu
Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. GREATNESS IS ALWAYS IN THE MOMENT OF THE DECISION. But you have to start.
— Jeff Olson
The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher each succeeding decade. We understand Jesus better than any other generation..A great man is like a mountain, you cannot appreciate when standing at its base.
— Charles Jefferson, The character of Jesus
The greatest thing in all the world is loving. The second greatest in all the world is learning.
— George H. Morrison, Addresses by The Reverend George H. Morrison: "The Afterglow of God" and "The Gateways to the Stars"
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.
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
A Mother Has the Best of all Smiles; She is a Wonderful Friend, Lover & Adviser.
— Agu, Jaachynma N.E.
It’s not one of our finest hours.
— Brian   Cook, The Thin Blue Line: Perception is Deception
The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction.
— John   Kramer, Blythe
Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.
— Orrin Woodward
Every craft is a self portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
The greatness of God!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
You don't need to become great 1st to step into your greatness. Have you left your comfort zone and ventured out to unleash your greatness?
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
You're a greatness material! You're great in your own unique ways. Have you found the source of your greatness?
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline
— Topsy Gift
The outward manifestation of greatness is that we excite devotion and love in our work.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
No monument was ever erected in favor of a critic.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Challenges prepare us for something greater! Only when it's done with love, can this greatness change us and fulfill our highest good!
— Angie karan
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
The good life is a process, not a state of being; the great life a penance.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Gratitude is who you are, sans baggage.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.
— Mark  Lawrence, Red Sister
Life has placed seeds of greatness in you. Let what you are capable of blossom.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
You really have no idea what other people are going through in their personal life so just be kind, it's that simple.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Idea is not to live forever but to create a life that does.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Respect is not delivered it is earned. If you want more respect in the world treat people with tremendous respect.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Gratitude beats paucity. Love trumps hate and integrity and honor are more valuable than huge wealth.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Abandon your resentments, they keep you small.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Remember the shortness of life. Be true to your dreams, talents and values today.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
,Be generous, giving grows your spirit just as reading grows your intellect.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Astonish the world with your acts of kindness, being deliberately kind to yourself and others.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
An uneasy past often builds the strongest and finest people.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
MY Life is my masterpiece. My work is my worship.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Your life is your masterpiece. In-script an era.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Ordinary people want everything the world does better. Extraordinary people focus on what they do best.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Your life will always echo your relationship with yourself.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
— Jeffrey Fry
Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness.
— Jeffrey Fry
Don’t limit yourself by what you’ve achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come.
— LaShawnda Jones
God connects us with those who inspire us and connect us to those whom we can inspire to greatness
— Sunday Adelaja
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...
— Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Vol 2
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
— Horace Mann
Maybe real-life Mom didn't vacuum the house flawlessly arrayed in pearls and a pleated shirt like the mother on leave it to beaver. Maybe she flirted with the milkman or waited for the kids to go to bed so she could hammer back a couple of mugs of vodka pretending it was tea. But she was there to greet us when we came home from school in the afternoon. She made us dinner, kept watch on us through the kitchen window, put Band-Aids on our scrapes and bruises. She was Mom and that was no small thing.
— Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.
— Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
If we can say no to all our worries, nothing can stop our greatness in life.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
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.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore, Titans of History
My trials may not be as hard as yours or as painful as yours but hey, I've gone through tough times as well! And yes God's love may be invisible, but I know the wonder of invisible Love... God is the Greatest!
— Aireen C. Pontillo
No one is useless in this world, I might not do the greats you do, endure greatly as you do but at some point we have something in common, we both NEED one another.
— Kabelo Mabona
Never mind the rule, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all,' because that's not the route to take. Instead, look into the mirror and say those things to yourself. Then yell those things at yourself. And multiply how much that hurts by 10. And decide, should I still say these things? And walk away.
— Rachel Eovacious
Nobody's perfect. They are weak, with ugly hearts, and they quickly turn to jealousy. They try to knock others down. It's so odd . . . In the world we live in, the greater a person is, the more difficult his or her life becomes.
— Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 1
Greatness is a wall
—  the moment you break a brick you will start falling...And if not rebuilt you will fall flat
Little things are little things
—  but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.
We often settle for what's available and what's available isn't always great. You are destined to achieve greatness!
— Farshad Asl
You cannot let a fear of failure, or a fear of comparison, or a fear of judgement stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure, you cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss. You must go out and take these risk. … Do what’s uncomfortable, and scary, and hard, but pays off in the long run. Be willing to fail. Let yourself fail. Fail in the way and the place where you would want to fail. Fail, pick yourself up and fail again. Because without this struggle, what is your success anyway?
— Charlie Day
Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
To become the best terrorists of your kind, it will take about 30,000 hours on focused practice. How you think of achieving a goal is not the same as how you want to achieve a goal. Not everything you think about is done the right way it should be done.
— Prince Akwarandu
For those who are with greatness bornShould live not for themselves alone.
— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
Those who seek to aspire are those who achieve Greatness.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.
— Abhijit Naskar
Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.
— Peter Koestenbaum
You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in the Mews
A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others.
— Amit Abraham
Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...
— G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica
His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.
— Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine
Have you been called to greatness? There is a way to tell. Do you have a pulse?
— R.A.Delmonico
You're allowed to practice humility while also owning your greatness. Don't you dare minimize your greatness.
— Erica Alex
There are thoughts that don’t let you sleep in the darkness of nights. Thoughts of life, love, circumstances and dreams. Interestingly, these thoughts don’t disappear when you have your eyes opened in the day ahead. Whether you live greatly or not is determined by these thoughts.
— Taranpreet Singh
He who is great judges himself and sets his own standards.
— Spirit Rain
If you read, you will have great wisdom for great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship.
— Sharvani Akula
To vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do not let the media or the establishment make you pick from the people they choose, but instead choose from those they do not pick.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If it were easy it would not be any fun.
— T Jay Taylor
Scars can mark you for greatness.
— Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
Great love, great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When our little bit is combined with His greatness, the team is unbeatable.
— James C. Dobson
The fullness of God’s grace fills us with power for every good work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the brains or the courage to tell the truth.
— Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell
To do what you want is not a privilege. It is a curse. It is the curse of ordinary men. Men with no responsibilities do whatever they want. Common men with no value and self worth do whatever they want. Men whose lives have no worthy purpose are free to do whatever they want. Not you. You are a prince for whom a heavy crown and a powerful throne await. You do not do whatever you want; you do what must be done."- King Chuka
— Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
— Alan Rickman
Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so inexhaustible a subject.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Those who clamour for true greatness are not swayed by the glamour of its treasures
— Osho Samuel Adetunji
There is something that happens when you know that life is finite: a desire for greatness, for whatever fleeting moments of brilliance you can leave in the world after you're gone. And whether the end of your life is five years away or fifty, the fact that you just don't know is a great motivator for not waiting to begin that thing that could potentially be your legacy. Whether it's a work of art, or a scientific breakthrough, a good deed, or a child, leaving something of yourself for others to experience and remember is sometimes the greatest excuse to live a life that's more than just crossing the distance between birth and death.
— April White, Waging War
1000 mile road begins with a single step, the freedom road begins with a scream that fires the battle, and the greatness road begins with a question that fires the spark of the change.
— Ammar Moussa (عمار موسى), رحلة إلى ما وراء القمة
My father always seems to think greatness and money are the same thing, but you know what I think greatness is?""What?" I ask."Being brave, like Miss Korzynski. Doing something that no one else has dared to do before you. Finding something that terrifies you and then doing it anyway.
— Jillian Cantor, Margot
The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it’s a duty preceding been an honour.
— Ammar Moussa (عمار موسى), رحلة إلى ما وراء القمة
Greatness is achieved, not only, by doing great things, but also,by making the small things we dogreat.
— S. Tarr, Wisdom for This Age
the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.
— Debasish Mridha
True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It's about why and how you serve the number of people you serve.
— Damilola Oluwatoyinbo
They might think you are being delusional for dreaming big, but so did a lot people think about most great individuals before their greatness.
If the churches, mosques and other religious centres could come together to embrace a nation’s value system, and then set out to disciple the nation in these values and virtues, then the greatness of such a nation is inevitable.
— Sunday Adelaja
An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values
— Sunday Adelaja
For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Confucius said that "man hideth not." Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.
— Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Who ever achieved greatness by playing it safe!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Greatness comes with patience.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Legacies are not just for legends. Whether a million people know your name, or only one person does, you still have the right to leave your mark on the world, even if it’s only in your tiny corner of it, in the tiniest of ways.Not all of us will achieve great heights and feats. Most of us will never leave our hometown or country, let alone conquer Everest. And you know what? That’s okay. Because real life is what happens in between moments of greatness. It’s the little things that at the end of it all, you realize were greater than the sum of their parts. It’s the amount of times you laughed, or cried, danced, sang, created, inspired, and made someone smile.The best kind of legacies are the ones that are unseen. You’ll never fully be able to measure the effect of a smile or a kind word, but I promise you, the most whispered phrase can send a shockwave around the world that lasts for centuries, or even an eternity.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
Greatness starts from bearing the willingness to embrace your uniqueness at all times.
You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?
— Steve Maraboli
I love to challenge myself to greater heights.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
MacCaulay clutches his coat tightly and makes towards the elaborate iron gates of the park. He hurries past Apsley House: one time residence of the ‘hero of a hundred fights’ – the Duke of Wellington. His monument to his own great deeds stands yet in front of the drawing room windows. If he had, in modesty, forgotten his own greatness, he might have looked upon it, and been reminded.
— Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen's Club
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 . . .
— Knut Hamsun
Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.
— Sunday Adelaja
I've reached a point, where I no longer believe I am unworthy of greatness, If the people I'm surrounded by; aren't Intune with my growth, I'm happy to let go, If the job I'm working, isn't bringing out the best in me, I'm happy to find something that will. If I complain about one thing, I must be grateful for 2 more. if I can't always have everything I want, I'll make damn sure I have everything I need. If life's Thunder hands me tears, I'll be sure to laugh through it. If I lose some, I trust it's because i am about to win more. If there is darkness, the light is almost in reach. Every obstacle, is the gateway to concious living and every heartache is the gateway to the most empowered love you could feel.
— Nikki Rowe
Greatness radiates from the lights of love and wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bond Street, removed only by a hand's-breadth from ordinary people who might now, for the first and last time, be within speaking distance of the majesty of England, of the enduring symbol of the state which will be known to curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth.
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Love is an energy to which we all must tune it. There is no greater power Source.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.
— Maya Angelou
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
— Earl Lovelace, Salt
It’s important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive—at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big.
— Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Great leaders are teachable leaders.
— Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines
As for children's working off aggressions, I'm against it. They are going to need all the aggressions they can contain for ultimate release in the adult world. Name one great man in history who did not go boiling and bubbling through childhood with a lashed-down safety valve.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
No matter how successful or great you become, never forget that you are nothing without the mercy of God.
It doesn't matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?
— Robert Tew
It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so.
— Ayn Rand
Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian.
— Arthur E. Bostwick
Greatness can only come to those who are always thankful, but never content with any level of progress.
Greatness is not always good.
— Melissa Grey, The Girl at Midnight
Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.
— Auliq Ice
Don't be discouraged if the people around you don't see what you see in your dream. Most great people were doubted in the beginning of their journey to greatness.
A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
You are great in Christ and you are powerful beyond measure!
— Deaquelynn Williams
He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Great women aren't born great, they become great.
— Sabrina Newby
No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.
— Auliq Ice
Greatness has never been a product of a mind that sees itself as being very unlucky in life.
Greatness is what happens when you relentlessly push yourself to continuously create a better you.
Greatness is what happens when you aren't afraid to relentlessly push yourself to tear down all your walls of limitations.
The great souls distinguish with two things
—  their greater needs and their greater agony.
Greatness is the flower of great adversity.
— Debasish Mridha
We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.
— Olivier Magny, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure
I don't believe in dreams that don't evolve, if your potential develops all the time, how is it possible that your dreams stay the same.
— Unarine Ramaru
To be great is not a word but work that makes a word.
— Auliq Ice
I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
notwithstanding how good a seed my be, it's proper germination,growth and fruit bearing may be mutilated if not planted in a good soil
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I am an expert at seeing peoples greatness.
— Monika Zands
When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. You will have nothing to lose but you will win and change the humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
The only difference between you and the star is that you shine below, and the other shines above: Wherever you are located, You are a star!
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Extreme Makeover
Don’t cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride :-) lol
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simple; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah y
To achieve greatness it simply starts with self-belief.
— Unarine Ramaru
You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Seize every opportunity and make it great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
You are special individual.Nobody can be you.You can rise to a greater heights.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
The power of greatness lies within each of us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is greatness in everyone.Look within yourself and discover your greatness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.
— Rachel Hamilton
There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Besides God, there is no glory above coming from humble beginnings, from sleeping under a porous grass thatched mud hut to rising above and beyond tabernacles of greatness
— Thabo Katlholo, The Mud Hut I Grew Upon
When we commit our lives to the Lord,He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are not as great or terrible as you think you are. Neither are they.
— J.D. Mader
Greatness rarely comes easy.
— James Boag
I can be all that I can be.Endless opportunities, this is my world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be great, dwell on great thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I've many reasons why I believe that every individual I meet is a greatness material
—  I don't have any reason to think otherwise except that person's self doubt.
Believe you are great and you will be great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you refuse to accept nothing but the best you will often get it.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece — you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!
— Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose
Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.
— Winston S. Churchill
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
God's help is available for us to achieve great things. We must put our hope and trust in the Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Hopefully and devoutly focus on your greater possibilities.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you live with values for yourself, then you become of great value to all who know you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Between goal and success, there is one critical thing - perseverance: it is the fundamental belief to always succeed, the determination to turn goal to gold, the greatness to never give up, the foresight to dream that enables you to make it happen.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never seek novelty or the eccentric; I do not go from land to land to contrast civilizations. I seek only, wherever I go, for symbols of greatness, and as I have already said, they may be found in the eyes of a child, in the movement of a gladiator, in the heart of a gypsy, in twilight in Ireland or in moonrise over the deserts. To hold the spirit of greatness is in my mind what the world was created for. The human body is beautiful as this spirit shines through, and art is great as it translates and embodies this spirit.
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
If you were really humble you would be great, because humility would never squander the magnificent gift of life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Live in this moment because this moment is the only thing that's real and the only time that you can create greatness.
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School
We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job as guest managing editor, and because she was kept fast at her desk when the rest of us were allowed to fool around….I remember we discussed how the editors treater her differently from the rest of us, as if she had been pre-recognized as someone they were expecting great things of.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
I feel the magic between you and I
— Eric Carmen
Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being
—  your purpose awaits your arrival.
You need not strive to become your greater purpose.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is no greater path than the act of listening.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..
— Alcurtis Turner
Place Yourself On the Scale You Desire.Don't Expect Others To Do It For You. It's An Individual Thing Called SELF-ESTEEM.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different
Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different
Where You Hail From Isn't As Important As Who You Are and What You Do...Your Doings Define and Describe You.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
God Is Love But For This Love To Be Real To Us Depends Largely On Our Responses and Reactions to Him.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.
— Timothy Findley, The Wars
I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.
— Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking
It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is todiscuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism atits finest hour. He was not one of those who merely achieved greatnessnor certainly one of those upon whom greatness was thrust-he was infact born great.
— Munindra Misra, PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.
— William Bayliss, Principles Of General Physiology
Always give your best
—  today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark.
To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm, passion and love. Not professionally or personally. We will not find greatness in our jobs, in our marriages, our children, in our friendships, nor in our spiritual growth without these three key elements. ~ Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.
— Jag Randhawa, The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation
No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.
— Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro
He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
That moment when this heart.. stops.. almost as if it never existed.When every.. breathe.. slows down.. almost as if you never ... needed as single breathe of airWhen time stops.. almost as if every second never mattered.In that moment... I'm infinite.In that moment... I am immortal.In that moment... I am Finally alive.
— Hafsa Shah
Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.
— Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
She wanted to be remembered for doing something great. And her greatest fear was of being completely forgotten.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, The Tomorrows
You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
I told you it would be difficult! If I were you I would just not bother trying these tasks! They are great challenges, clearly too great for you.” said Guya, but there was a certain sparkle in his eye as he said it. “I shall complete your tasks, ” said Yoshiko firmly. “And I’ll be back sooner than you think!” With that he spread his wings to head for Fire School. “Oh and one more thing Guya” Yoshiko added. Perhaps when I return you will be so kind as to stop calling me a little dragon!” As Yoshiko flew off Guya chuckled to himself.
— Julia Suzuki, Yoshiko and the Gift of Charms
Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.
— John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
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.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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.
— Knut Hamsun, Mysteries
He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.
— Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty...But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wild Girls
Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
A surrendered heart leads to greatness. A stubborn heart leads to struggle.
— Todd Stocker
There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one".I love that scene. That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again. That's fighting.
— JohnA Passaro
There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.
— JohnA Passaro
The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness
— Pope Benedict XVI
Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.
— George R.R. Martin
Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.
— Krishna Saagar
Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now. Those who have inherited rich blood can use that richness in building greatness in themselves, but those who have not the privilege of such inheritance need not be discouraged. They can create their own rich blood and make it as rich as they like.
— Christian D. Larson
Get it Right today, for today wil never come again
— Seyi Ayoola
When you have nothing to say, don't.
— Krishna Saagar
True greatness demands humility
—  the journey draws it from your struggling soul.
He was searching for something greater, if there is a thing greater than love, and he could not settle until he found it.
— Nina -, Johnny Kiddow
What’s that around your neck?” asked Emily. “It’s a golden star.” Said Reed.“What did you get it for?”“Chemistry class.”“What’s the star for?” the shadow asked, Usually stars represent a straight A student. “You get it for having greatness. But Emily doesn’t know what that is.” He said, answering the shadows question and looking at Emily. “Greatness, what’s greatness?” Emily asked, all wide eyed, and clueless looking“It’s when you do really awesome stuff, and people recognize you for it.”“Oh, no” Emily laughed .”No, I don’t know what that is.
— Rumi Antoinette
Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.
— Henry Enfield Roscoe
Greatness is achieved, not only by doing great things, but also,by making the small things we dogreat.
— S. Tarr
Life is a beautiful dream to be cherished, as long as it lasts.
— Krishna Saagar
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.
— François Magendie
Emil Fischer represents a symbol of Germany's greatness.
— Carl Dietrich Harries
Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I believe "Leadership" is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.
— Ben Jonson
You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.
— Roel van Sleeuwen
Who are you not to be great? You, with the imagination of a brilliant child and the powers of an ancient god. Who are you to be ordinary? You, who can resend life or raise the dead.Who are you to be afraid? You, who can serve as judge and jury while hoarding infinite lives.Who are you to be a slave to the past? You who can travel time like the oceans or rewrite history with a single word.Who are you to be anonymous? You whose names should be spoken in reverend tones or terrified whispers.And who are you to deny greatness? If you would deny it to yourself, you deny it to the entire world. And we will not be denied.
— Official PlayStation Greatness Awaits Trailer
The root of all true greatness, is humility.
— C. JoyBell C.
It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.
— P.J. Sullivan, Mostly Rapscallions: Salient Sillies about the Rich and Infamous in History
Begin where you are and what you are.
— Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
True greatness is often unrecognized.
— Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana