“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
We must remember that, within each difficulty, the seed for its solution is stored, and quite possibly the seed of greatness is there, too, just waiting to be found.
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."
To be simple is to be great.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Greatness after all, ion spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die....
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.