Quotes & Sayings About Achieving Greatness

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph. — Charlie Chaplin

The realest and scariest monsters are internal demons, the specters of regret and guilt and lack of fulfillment, awareness of the entropic end of love, or the first shivers occasioned by the realization of our own ageing, and the eventual inevitability of death. — Michael Marshall Smith

There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences. — Sarah Paulson

Don't wake up one day and wonder where your life has gone. Make your dreams come true. — Wendie Nordgren

We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak. — Pandora Poikilos

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness. — Rod Hundley

I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books eat ice cream every day. — Colleen Hoover

It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium ... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography. — Ralph Gibson

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win. — Alex Rodriguez

When the Earth was last four degrees warmer, there was no ice at either pole. Global warming of this magnitude would eventually leave the whole planet without ice for the first time in nearly 40 million years. — Mark Lynas

Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed. — John Galsworthy

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

You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams. — Bryant McGill

With great vision, strong determination, and persistent action, everyone is capable of achieving greatness. — Debasish Mridha

Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become. — Udai Yadla

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation. — Louis Navellier

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. — Buck Rodgers

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. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

We are capable of greatness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Dreams of greatness came easily. Achieving it was harder. — Alex Rutherford

Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out — Nicholas Sparks

It's important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you're big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive - at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big. — Gary Keller

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things
some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor
who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. — Barack Obama

He learned how to look at himself from a distance, to see himself first of all as a man among other men, then as a collection of random particles of matter, and finally as a single speck of dust - and the farther he traveled from his point of origin, she said, the closer he came to achieving greatness. — Paul Auster

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

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field. — Brian Tracy

She better be capable of achieving something of the greatness that a cure for cancer would give the world or as damned good of an assassin as he was. If she possessed none of that, she should at least be the kind of woman with both a personality and face that could make any man question his better judgment. There weren't enough of those in the world, at least not in the world he knew. — Drea Damara

Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about. — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire. — Justin Young

Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child. — Edward O. Wilson

Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs? — Dan Pearce

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. — Barbra Streisand

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

I walk alone and on my own. — Parul Wadhwa

am just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving extraordinary success as any other person, and I will prove it today with my actions. I am destined for greatness, and today I will live in alignment with my destiny. Selling isn't about me and what I want; it is about connecting with my prospect by finding out what's important to them, and then matching my product to meet their wants and needs. — Hal Elrod

Believing in yourself ... is always the X factor in the equation of achieving greatness! — Timothy Pina