Greatness Quotes - Page 19

Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion will never be afraid of sheep, no matter how many outnumber it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is a bird’s imagination, not its wings, that determines how high it can fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not the difficulty of achieving greatness that stops us but the fear of being great.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

In the presence of the sun nobody sees the stars; excel, and you too will eclipse your competition.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Never underestimate a warrior; the lion in him may be sleeping, but that does not mean he’s dead.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If adventurers were cowardly, no one would have crossed the nations; if sailors were fearful, no one would have crossed the oceans; if pilots were gutless, no one would have crossed the skies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird must have faith in its wings in order to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Throw a warrior to the wolves and he’ll return a conqueror.

Matshona Dhliwayo

They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not your enemies that you need to conquer on the journey to greatness, but yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Have the mind of a swam, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swam, and the soul of a dove.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Turbulence does not shake a tree with strong roots.

Matshona Dhliwayo

An acorn is an oak tree inside out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion never loses sleep over a sheep's sentiments.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I may not have riches but I have great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself.

Molly Anne Marie

Man's delight in the Lord is the absolute peak of human triumph. He praises God when full of joy, and when not, he praises God to become full of joy. For to know and to live as though God is worthy of all praise, in all one's circumstances, whether seemingly good or seemingly bad, is the primary definition of joy and the richest triumph for man under God.

When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.

Euphoria Godsent

The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

Lady Gaga

The greatest thing is to live a daring life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Tell me, who in this life, were never guided in course of their realization of their goal?

Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as we desire to reach new heights, we will find the strength to climb the mountain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May the enthusiasm of a new year give you a persistent willpower to fulfill your dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Success requires preparation and persistence effort.

Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

Here I stand now, with a sweet tingling feeling all over, recalling the last time I was here, and I am glad that I am here again, while wondering why I didn’t recognize it earlier. But now I have got the chance to recognize and deal with it more effectively and I know that I can visit this place as many times as I want, and take as many chances as I want, because I finally realize that I, am in total control of my life.

Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are the energy you attract. Whether you are aware of that or not, everything you come up against is teaching you about that part within yourself. Listen carefully, it's a hint to a better you.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain

Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatness often demands great sacrifice.

Debasish Mridha

To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks.

Debasish Mridha

The prospect of death is nature's way of encouraging us to strive for greatness.

Antonio Kowatsch

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.

Constance Friday

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

The greatest life is to share, to sacrifice and to serve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.

Anybody that does not value time does not value life.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable.

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman

Friedrich Nietzsche

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Stanley Wolpert

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Stanley Wolpert

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

Amit Ray

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness...

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Edgar Allan Poe

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