Quotes Tagged "greatness"

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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.

Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS Before you were born, And were still too tiny for The human eye to see, You won the race for life From among 250 million competitors. And yet, How fast you have forgotten Your strength, When your very existence Is proof of your greatness. You were born a winner, A warrior, One who defied the odds By surviving the most gruesome Battle of them all. And now that you are a giant, Why do you even doubt victory Against smaller numbers, And wider margins? The only walls that exist, Are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, Exist only because you have forgotten What you have already Achieved. Poetry by Suzy Kassem

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.

If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.