Quotes & Sayings About Achieve Greatness

At her easiest, she was hard, because her brain was always working, working, working - I had to exert myself just to keep pace with her. I'd spend an hour crafting a casual e-mail to her, I became a student of arcana so I could keep her interested: the Lake poets, the code duello, the French Revolution. Her mind was both wide and deep, and I got smarter being with her. And more considerate, and more active, and more alive, and almost electric, because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result.
Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing. Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness, and I hated myself for it, and ultimately, I realized, I punished her for it. I turned her into the brittle, prickly thing she became. — Gillian Flynn

Mastering the art of selling involves mastering the craft of providing your clients the education, products, services, and personal contact before, during and after the sale that they want, need and, more important, deserve. That's how you succeed. That's how you'll not only survive and grow in this business, but will thrive, prosper, and achieve greatness through it. — Tom Hopkins

For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance. — John C. Maxwell

Harry had always been frightened of ending up as one of those child prodigies that never amounted to anything and spent the rest of their lives boasting about how far ahead they'd been at age ten. But then most adult geniuses never amounted to anything either. There were probably a thousand people as intelligent as Einstein for every actual Einstein in history. Because those other geniuses hadn't gotten their hands on the one thing you absolutely needed to achieve greatness. They'd never found an important problem. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind. — Theodor Herzl

You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness — Bangambiki Habyarimana

To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks. — Debasish Mridha

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness. — Nelson Mandela

I am very rich; my heart is full of kindness. I gave away so much love; I achieve greatness. — Debasish Mridha

A woman may achieve greatness, or at any rate great renown, by merely being a wonderful wife and mother, like the mother of the Gracchi; whereas the men who have achieved great renown by being devoted husbands and fathers might be counted on the fingers of one hand. Charles I was an unfortunate king, but an admirable family man. Still, you would scarcely class him as one of the world's great fathers, and his children were not an unqualified success. Dear me! Being a great father is either a very difficult or a very sadly unrewarded profession. Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him - or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe. — Jack McDevitt

There is a reason why we admire certain people. They espouse something that strikes a chord within us. Be it their innate talent, drive, wisdom, or attitude, there is a reason we find certain individuals fascinating, and if we can harness that same spark that made them great, perhaps we can achieve greatness as well. — Ryan Blair

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.' — Shaquille O'Neal

To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women. — Melvil Dewey

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must learn everything that will help you achieve your goals — Sunday Adelaja

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life. — Tony Dungy

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely. — Amy Chan

Most people have a perception that winners are born great. Winners aren't born great. They have become great by the virtue of doing a little extra to achieve greatness. That little extra effort accumulates to one day giving them the winning results when compared to the ordinary efforts of others. — Kevin Abdulrahman

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton

You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple. — Debasish Mridha

A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in thanksgiving as it sets. Community is only being created when they have recognized that the greatness of man is to accept his insignificance, his human condition and his earth, and to thank God for having put in a finite body the seeds of eternity which are visible in small and daily gestures of love and forgiveness. The beauty of man is in this fidelity to the wonder of each day. — Jean Vanier

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. — William Shakespeare

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world. — Shaun Hick

Ordinary people think you are crazy when you attempt the impossible, deride you when you are halfway to achieving it, and envy you when you achieve it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness. — Steve Maraboli

What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you from achieving your maximum potential. — Jaycee DeLorenzo

As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness. — Scott McClellan

The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence. — Vince Lombardi

If you can endure anything, you can become anything. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path, you will reach your destination. Remember God's grace is sufficient. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance. — Wes Fesler

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes. — Sharon Stone

Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams — Sunday Adelaja

Let these 2 quotes sink in. In tandem together.

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at." - Bruce Lee

"Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi

The key here is thing to take away from the tandem of these quotes is that even those you will never achieve perfection, the fact that you will aim towards unfathomable goals you will along the journey catch greatness. — Matthew Donnelly

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction. — Jim Valvano

Persons born in wealth and luxury seldom achieve greatness. They were not born for labour; and, without labour, nothing that is worth having can be won. — Maria Susanna Cummins

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness. — Bertrand Russell

Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness. — Donny Deutsch

When you achieve excellence,
expect some to oppose you.
When you achieve brilliance,
expect several to resent you.
When you achieve greatness,
expect many to envy you.
When you achieve transcendence,
expect plenty to hate you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To climb great mountains you need feet of faith. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Dream the impossible.
See the invisible.
Pursue the intangible.
Achieve the incredible. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part. — Ben Johnson

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world. — Jack Johnson

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country. — Rafael Cruz

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. — Anonymous

Hold it down until you come up — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The person best suited to look out for your interests is you. The more you depend on yourself, the more positive control you have over every aspect of your life.
Take personal responsibility for who you are, what you do, and how you live. You are the only person who knows what is best for you. And you are the one who is most able to achieve it!! You have GREATNESS within you! — Les Brown

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness. — A.D. Posey

Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Imagination, Wisdom — Hyrum W. Smith

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

A beautiful life is about spending your time passionately, being happy with who you are inside, and not worrying about everyone's petty judgments. If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for everyone's approval. You don't need anyone's approval to be happy or to follow your heart. — Shivesh Thakur

If we view ourselves to achieve a great life and DESIRE to fulfill our visions then we will do nothing but act accordingly regardless of the setbacks we occur on the journey. "I am a unique individual who is on the journey for greatness and things will get in my way but I will figure out away around them or just go right through them with the conviction of my vision — Matthew Donnelly

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian. — Arthur E. Bostwick

Why, 'Some are born great, some achieve great- ness, and some have greatness thrown upon them. — William Shakespeare

We were not born into this life knowing
that we were going to become
rich or poor, striving or with a celeb status, sick or healthy.
But one thing that I know is that
the human mind is a powerful tool to achieve success. No matter the circumstances,
greatness is when you push
yourself above the odds. — Henry Johnson Jr

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift. — Robin Williams

Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed — Sunday Adelaja

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. — Rensis Likert

Seek and achieve "GREATNESS" instead of mere success — Fela Durotoye

Dream the impossible.
See the impossible.
Pursue the impossible.
Achieve the impossible. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve. — Andrae Crouch

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. — John C. Maxwell

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness. — Sun Tzu

You can achieve your set-goals by God's grace — Lailah Gifty Akita

Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness ... — Christopher Paolini

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are. — Thomas Merton

Oh, the things we can achieve when we aspire to the greatness within ourselves. — B. Roman

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish! — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different. — Christopher Paolini

To achieve greatness, feel grateful for what you have. — Debasish Mridha

I have devoted my whole life to Physical Culture. I shall devote the rest too for the same. I have seen the degradation in which we are at present. I have travelled extensively and all that I have remarked here is from experience; and my suggestions are to meet the situation. I know they would, if adapted remedy the evil; for, I have studied carefully the position. If we in all seriousness wish to call ourselves the descendants of the mighty Yoddhas of past, if we wish not to cast a blot on the fair name of India, if we wish that India should have a future vying with its glorious past, if we wish that we should gain an honorable and equal place among the peoples of the world it should be our sacred resolve from now to wake up from the sleep as a lion; we should muster muscle and steel the body. For all greatness lies in Culture and 1 should only be too gratified if my scheme could put the youth of the country on the right track to achieve our most cherished Ideals. — Kodi Ramamurthy Naidu

Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent — Sunday Adelaja

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it. — Andrew Carnegie

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. — Fred Hoyle

Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run. — Tony Horton

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness. — Charles R. Swindoll

When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God. — Jean Giono

Best way to achieve greatness is to serve others with great love. — Debasish Mridha

Only through pain you achieve your greatness! — STAR WARS

To win, you have to believe you will win. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only those who break the shackles of convention can ever achieve greatness. — Barry S. Brunswick

Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone. — Rachel Hamilton

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea."
"That's only three."
Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice. — Jess Walter

Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have. — Amber L. Johnson

The trouble with these Nazis is that they have no self-critical faculty, so in their efforts to achieve greatness, they achieve nothing but a parody of greatness. Caesar conquered nations, took their leaders captive, picked their brains, and so enriched his empire. Hitler will burn down nations, torture their leaders to death, and destroy the world. — Edith Hahn Beer

Plan for the difficult while it is still easy. The greatest things in the world are done while still slight. So wise leaders never do big things; that's how they achieve greatness. — Lao-Tzu

You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind. — Debasish Mridha

Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve - to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life? — Kwame Nkrumah

Believe you are great and you will be great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you'd believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Believe and achieve your dreams. There is greatness inside of you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand. — Kara Goucher

Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness. — Drew Karpyshyn

God's help is available for us to achieve great things. We must put our hope and trust in the Lord. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Think how the great think,
do what the great do,
live how the great live,
and you will achieve what the great achieve. — Matshona Dhliwayo