Quotes on Achieve Greatness

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.

A great man is always willing to be little.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.