Quotes on Greatness

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Accept all invitations to do a new thing. Dare not limit yourself. Move toward your wildest #‎ dream , take the labels off your mind, and step boldly into your greatness.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

I want people to remember that greatness is not a sports term. It's a life term.

Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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.