Greatness Quotes

All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. - Greg Arnold

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there. - Cindy Sherman

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard Nixon

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. - Kurt Lewin

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success -
Helen Hayes

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. - Vauvenargues

Big thinking precedes great achievement. - Wilfred Peterson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 Rogers

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?
- William Makepeace Thackery

True greatness consists in being great in little things. - Charles Simmons

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. - Horace Mann

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. - James Anthony Froude

The price of greatness is responsibility. - William Churchill

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Mrs. Sunda's Gifted Resource Class, Brisas Elementary
Chandler, AZ - May 2005