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But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.
Sep 10, 2025
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.
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.
No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
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.
The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.
One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.
You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.
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.
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.
The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.
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.
I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand
No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where a government very successfully convinced the majority of a population that every single person there was blocking the other people from achieving greatness in the country, only to realize that we were all being oppressed at the same time. That's one of the biggest things. And I'm proud to say that.
I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.
You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.
Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
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.