Quotes on Greatness

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.