Nearly every individual has the potential to be great. Most people need prodding, encouragement, motivation, direction, and most importantly, a reason or a cause that is important to them, to maximize their potential. True leaders, by effectively listening to others and appreciating their needs, desires, hot buttons, etc., come up with ways to get through to people and get them to want to buy into the vision. True leaders realize that they cannot make someone great, but that they can motivate and lead others to find and use their own potential to be great. Quotes on greatness are inspirational, these great quotes will inspire you to do well in life.
35 Great Quotes
- “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” Virginia Satir
- “Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso
- “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale
- “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” Bob Marley
- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” Richard Branson
- “You can only become great at that thing you’re willing to sacrifice for.” Maya Angelou
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
- “Every problem is a gift—without problems, we would not grow.” Anthony Robbins
- “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” Neil Gaiman
- “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” Dwayne Johnson
- “You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” Warren Buffett
- “Great men are not born great, they grow great…” Mario Puzo
- “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” Albert Einstein
- “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” Michelle Obama
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
- “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” John Lennon
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison
- “When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.” Bryant McGill
- “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” Phil Knight
- “The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” Mark Twain
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” Stephen King
- “The price of greatness is responsibility.” Winston Churchill
- “The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what…” Assegid Habtewold
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West
- “This above all: to thine own self be true.” William Shakespeare
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” Steve Jobs
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Bernard M. Baruch
- “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anaïs Nin
- “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” William W. Purkey
