Top 1200 Destined For Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.

I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.

Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.

Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be sold. That's not to say that you can't be an artist and a fashion designer. I think some designers are artists.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

A lot of people love to throw the social climber thing at people who are on the rise, but it's really just God moving all the people that are distractions, all the obstacles, out of the way for me to achieve what I'm destined to achieve.

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

It is so important for children to know that being a little bit wobbly or 'different' doesn't stop somebody from achieving greatness!

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

All I want is greatness for West Virginia, and I'll work with anyone who is ready to help me turn this state around.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams, of course. But does anybody desperately want to dream more than the people of North Korea?

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

There is no easy way to greatness in any venue. But if you work hard, good things will inevitably happen to you.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intuition, an inner 'yes.' I don't know if it's destined or not, but certainly I couldn't imagine being the person I am today without the romantic experiences I've had.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion - and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder.

If your only intent is to be seen, you'll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you're destined to be noticed.

When I started my podcast, 'The School of Greatness,' one of the top three people I wanted to get on the show was Tony Robbins.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

When I first got into the sport, or first got into athletics, I always felt that sense of responsibility that I was destined for something bigger, that I was going to do something major.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.