Quotes on Greatness

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

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

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

The best way out is always through.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

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

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

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