Top 1200 Potential For Greatness Quotes & Sayings

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.

There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

In order to do something you've never done, you've got to become someone you've never been. I think that all of us have great potential within us, but greatness is a choice; it's not our destiny. And in the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials, failures and disappointments , which take us to the door of discovery and greatness.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become?

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples of Europe of the potential greatness of the United States and of the importance of the Revolution to the world.

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

Believe in your own potential for greatness.

Everyone has a potential for greatness.

Every human being has the potential for greatness.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

I believe in highlighting the 'greatness' that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Appreciate your flaws to reach the potential of your greatness.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.