― William Shakespeare

•“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” 
― Judy Garland

•“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” 
― Fran Lebowitz 

•“Great men are not born great, they grow great.” 
― Mario Puzo

•“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.” 
― Napoleon Bonaparte

•“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

•“Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” 
― Orison Swett Marden 

•“All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.” 
― Amy Neftzger

•“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.” 
― Pierre Trudeau

•“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” 
― William Arthur Ward 

•“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” 
― Albert Einstein

•“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind” 
― Theodore Roosevelt 

•“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

•“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.” 
― Brandon Sanderson

•“Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.” 
― Robin Williams

•“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” 
― Eleanor Roosevelt 

•“Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.” 
― Robert Schumann

•“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” 
― Oprah Winfrey 

•“Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

•“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

•“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” 
― Robert H. Schuller 

•“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” 
― John D. Rockefeller 

•“A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.” 
― Napoleon Bonaparte 

•“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” 
― Aesop 

•“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“You are not in competition with anybody except yourself;plan to outdo your past not other people.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” 
― Abraham Lincoln 

•“Don't underestimate your worth by comparing yourself with others.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” 
― Sallust 

•“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.” 
― Napoleon Bonaparte

•“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.” 
― Beryl Markham

•“To be great is to be misunderstood.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.” 
― George Eliot

•“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” 
― Plato 

•“Good and great are seldom in the same man.” 
― Winston Churchill

•“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” 
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

•“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.” 
― Elbert Hubbard

•“It takes a great man to be a good listener.” 
― Calvin Coolidge

•“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

•“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.” 
― George Bernard Shaw

•“A great man is always willing to be little.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Laws control the lesser man.Right conduct controls the greater one.” 
― Mark Twain 

•“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.” 
― Chanakya