A Quote by John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio
To achieve great things requires that we become great people.
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My hope is to become a top player here at Arsenal. A lot of great players have played here. I want to become part of the club's history and to achieve great things here.
It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.
Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things - and that has worked as a great model for me.
All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.
I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.
If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
If you're in the arts, or anything that requires great discipline, the only way to achieve it is to put in the hours.
Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.
I tell my kids all the time, 'I want you to be a great athlete, I want you to be great academically, I want you to achieve a lot of things, but mostly I want you to be a great person. If none of the other stuff happens and you're a great person, then I'm okay with anything else that happens in your life - that's the highest standard.'
I like seeing people achieve great things.
