Greatness Begins With You Quotes & Sayings

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends. — Debasish Mridha

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy! — Sam Hughes

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness
begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you — Jim Butcher

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world — Tony Blair

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet. — Lu Xun

The alphabet is male and female. If you will know the correct order of letters, you make a world, you make creation. This is why they will hide the order. If you will know the combinations, you make all life and death. — Don DeLillo

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start. — P.G. Wodehouse

1000 mile road begins with a single step, the freedom road begins with a scream that fires the battle, and the greatness road begins with a question that fires the spark of the change. — Ammar Moussa

Feed your inner man;
greatness begins within. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness. — Criss Jami

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it. — Delphine De Girardin

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids ... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to. — Tyler, The Creator

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get. — Grant Heslov

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion. — Sarah Silverman

The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you hope to avoid in societies you find there. — Frederick Lenz

So shine on through these days we have to fill. — John The Apostle

All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be. — Freya Stark

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,
at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends. — Thomas Carlyle

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone. — Robin Sharma

It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment ... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions ... More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature. — Ludwig Von Mises

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. — Pat Riley

Greatness is a journey that begins with the impossible and turns in to the unforgettable. — Miguel Torres

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within ... could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The path to greatness begins with your willingness to take small steps. — Kathy McClary

Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important. — Edie Falco

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — Maria Montessori