There are four things you need for greatness: the ability to sacrifice, the ability to endure pain whether it's physical or mental, the ability to understand that you're going to fail because that makes you a better person. And finally, loving what you're doing.Jerome Bettis
No one’s really that great. You know who’s great? The people that just put tremendous amount of hours into it. It’s a game of tonnage.Jerry Seinfeld
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.Plato
Whoever wants to achieve something great must not seek to satisfy or please anyone but himself in his work: as soon as he fishes for the approval of others, it will not be anything great.Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain
Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.Joel Osteen
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.James C. Collins
Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.Lewis Howes
For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.Vincent van Gogh
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.Mahatma Gandhi
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Oprah Winfrey
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.Dorothy Height
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.Thomas Fuller
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.Grenville Kleiser
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.Bob Marley
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.John Ruskin
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.Myles Munroe
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.Maya Angelou
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.B. R. Ambedkar
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.Jack Kerouac