Achieve Greatness Quotes

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Creativity means believing you have greatness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Creativity, Mean

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Greatness, Men

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• 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 Rodgers

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Night, Greatness, Born Leaders

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.

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• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Intellectual, Achieve

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• Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Great Person

  "Frondes Agrestes, Readings in 'Modern Painters' Chosen at Her Pleasures".

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• Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Greatness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.26, Publishdrive

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Death, Kindness

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• A great man is always willing to be little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Achieve, Should

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• I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Greatness, Criticism

  "A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings".

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• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Journey, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 02, 2016

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• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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• Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Happy, Greatness

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