Greatness
363 quotes: 64 by Keith Craft, 299 from other voices.
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- The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
- The only way to achieve greatness in life is to have patience, consistency, and discipline.
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
- The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.
- The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
- The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
- The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind.
- The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
- The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
- The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
- The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
- The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.
- The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.
- The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.J. C. RyleSourced
- There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.
- There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
- There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
- There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.G. K. ChestertonCommonly attributed
- There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
- There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
- There is nothing little to the truly great in spirit.
- There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons.
- There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.Elbert HubbardSourced
- There’s a ritual that you have to engage in in order to step into your greatness.
- Those who do not blunder achieve nothing.
- Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?
- Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.
- Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
- To achieve great things a man must so live as if he had never to die.
- To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
- To be able to work and wait, knowing that right results inevitably follow right efforts, is a true sign of greatness.
- To be gentle, generous, lenient, forgiving, and yet never relinquish the vital thing--this is to be great.
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
- To understand success, pay less attention to the final product and more to the mundane process. […] The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind.
- True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.Pliny the ElderSourced