Greatness
363 quotes: 64 by Keith Craft, 299 from other voices.
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- Success is the result of your consistency invisibly compounding for you, over long periods of time. Greatness isn’t one decision. Great is just good repeated, over and over again.
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.Arthur SchopenhauerSourced
- Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.Maya AngelouSourced
- Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.James Russell LowellSourced
- Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.
- Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
- Teamwork allows common people to obtain uncommon results.
- Teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
- That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry on his work.
- That man is great who rises to the emergencies of the occasion, and becomes master of the situation.
- The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.
- The bottom line is this: if you want to engage your employees at a whole new level, if you want to become a person of greater influence, and if you want to discover a new kind of power — listen.
- The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
- The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
- The errors of a great mind are more edifying than the truths of a little.
- The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
- The first step to greatness is to be honest.
- The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
- The great lesson of Biography is to show what man can be and do at his best.
- The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
- The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
- The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.Publilius SyrusSourced
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.Thomas CarlyleCommonly attributed
- The greatest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
- The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
- The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
- The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.
- The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
- The highest accomplishment is to be a person of generosity, integrity, curiosity, humility, and wisdom.
- The highest fame was never reached except By what was aimed above it.
- The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it.
- The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- The man who can laugh at himself, and who is not anxious to have the last word, is right in the suburbs of greatness.
- The man who can overcome small worries is greater than the man who can override great obstacles.
- The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
- The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
- The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
- The most useful is the greatest.
- The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.