Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you
Interpretation
True greatness lies in the impact you have on others, rather than in your own achievements.
This quote emphasizes that greatness is not defined by individual success or personal accolades, but rather by the positive influence one can have on others. It suggests that the true measure of a person's greatness is reflected in how they inspire, uplift, and empower those around them, fostering growth and potential in others.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about leadership and the importance of mentoring others.
When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory , cause you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther.
The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.
I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.
Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd say he's a liar or there's something wrong with him. I'd send him to a doctor to find out what the hell's the matter with him, because this is not a normal reaction. The fighter that's gone into the ring and hasn't experienced fear is either a liar or a psychopath.
Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.
To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change menβs lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he says to you and me: βcome forth.β Come forth from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life. Come forth.
They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when Iβm inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.
When I turned on the TV or the radio, and flicked to the newspaper, I never saw anyone like me. That's what I struggled with the most. I loved Pat Rafter. I couldn't be Pat Rafter. I watched Rove McManus and I couldn't be Rove either.
People write me every day. It feels like this cycle that keeps giving, because as far along as I get in my happiness and success, hearing other people's stories is a constant reminder of where I came from, where people are, and how much help everybody still needs.
Let us be aware of our power to create a dream of heaven where everything is possible. Help us to use our imagination to guide the dream of our life, the magic of our creation. Today let something extraordinary happen that will change our life forever; let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love
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