In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.

My perfection is in my perfection.

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

True greatness is often unrecognized.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

I don’t know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something–or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it’s just an ego trip.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little...

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what’s familiar.

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one’s ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty…But knowing your limits and going to them isn’t arrogance. It’s greatness of spirit.

Great women aren’t born great, they become great.

Don’t deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.

Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

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.

A surrendered heart leads to greatness. A stubborn heart leads to struggle.

I believe “Leadership” is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!

The last time we played, there was a lot of hype. You could feel the tension and the greatness of the game in the air, and I’m sure it’s gonna be that way (tonight) as well.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destination. The greater the quantity of your oil, the more you cover the distance, and the more you...

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

I “love” reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won’t read and read and forget to marry.

I want to achieve greatness in high school, go to Georgetown or Villanova and get into the NBA soon.

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

Love is an energy to which we all must tune it. There is no greater power Source.

Think great, be great.

if you are not a fan of great consumer service, then you are not a fan of business ultimately not making you a fan of money.

Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate

Be thankful for your achievements; be thankful for your accomplishments, no matter how big or small. Be thankful for the mind to complete the accomplishments. Be thankful for your past, present, and future. And know that if you are creating success stories you will find that average is how you began, above average is then...

Exceed, succeed, outdo, overdo, all with a smile.

God’s divine power is mighty upon us to do good works.

There is greatness in everyone.Look within yourself and discover your greatness.

Be great, dwell on great thoughts.

Never ever feel inferior because of the colour of your skin. Great is your soul.

Seize every opportunity and make it great.

Impossible is nothing.