greatness quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
71
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
75
"There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It's what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does."
142
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
183
"True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit."
228
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
375
"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
380
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to\ \ patient attention, than to any other talent."
568
"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
569
"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."
572
"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly."
651
"You’ve been given another day of life. How will you use it? Will you wait until tomorrow as you’ve done for years or decide today is the day you commit to excellence?"
794
"Your future is the result of your daily actions. You’re defined by what you do today. Lazy now, loser later. Get to work."
795
"The temporary satisfaction of quitting is outweighed by the eternal suffering of being nobody."
796
"Your mind must be stronger than your feelings."
797
"There is no light without dark. There is no joy without pain."
798
"If failure makes you stronger, you can never lose."
799
"A man without a vision for his future always returns to his past."
800
"Cost is the enemy of the poor man, so the poor try to save money. Time is the enemy of the rich man, so the rich try to save time."
801
"Lazy people do a little work and feel like they should be winning. Winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they’re being lazy."
802
"The harder you work, the more important you become."
803
"Your mindset is the single most important factor in determining your success or failure."
804
"Reality is self-constructed. In my world, I am in absolute control every second."
805
"Resist the slave mind."
806
"If you want the happy tomorrows, you need the truths that hurt today."
807
"Stress is the only condition under which your body and mind will ever perform miracles."
808
"Most people see other people with things they want and don’t do the second half. They don’t try to work out how they got that thing."
809
"Have you taken advantage of the few things you actually control? Or are you still hoping to just get lucky?"
810
"Poor people like to believe the rich are mysteriously unhappy to feel better about being poor."
811
"Do the impossible and you’ll never doubt yourself ever again."
812
"You are exactly where you deserve to be. Change who you are and you will change how you live."
813
"Intellect is nothing without energy. Ideas are nothing without energy. High-energy people win."
814
"Reject weakness in any form."
815
"Don’t listen to the advice of people who are living lives you don’t want to live."
816
"Your only option to level up is to begin talking to winners."
817
"Your mindset is like a muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes."
818
"Suffer because you’re weak or suffer to become strong, but there’s no avoiding the suffering."
819
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. You’ve gotta do something and you’ve gotta do something fast. You just sitting around talking about it and hoping for things to get better isn’t going to do anything."
820
"You’ve never pushed yourself because you believe the goal can never be achieved."
821
"You need to understand that in this world there’s a whole bunch of people doing amazing things that you are not doing. And that needs to piss you off."
822
"You have unlimited work to do today. Every second you waste is an admittance that you don’t actually want it badly enough."
823
"Think of all of the amazing things you could have accomplished by now if you weren’t brutally lazy. Imagine all of the time you wasted, every opportunity you let pass by, all the good advice you arrogantly ignored."
824
"You must put in the effort to get the life you want."
825
"Emotional control isn’t a lack of emotion; it’s a necessary function of maturity."
826
"You are never going to have any of the things you want if you do not get them yourself. Nobody cares about you enough to do it for you."
827
"Depression is not real. Feeling depressed is real. So, you can feel depressed, but you feel depressed and that is a natural, biological, evolutionary trigger for you to change something in your life. That’s your own mind telling you ‘you’re unhappy about X’. If I went to jail today, I’d be depressed because I’m in jail. I haven’t caught depression, I don’t have a disease, I’m just upset with my situation."
828
"You don’t get to go through life only doing the things that you feel like doing."
829
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
916
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."
1089
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
27
"Discipline is the key to success. Absolutely is. If you cannot force yourself to do something that you do not want to do, how are you ever gonna put yourself through the suffering required for greatness?"
855