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“You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.”

Ifs World Want Needs Achieve This World Greatness Aspiration Achieve Greatness

Author:Jack Johnson

“Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.”

World Firsts May Different Action Differences This World Greatness Fame Strive Significant Originality Daring Thoughts And Actions

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.”

“I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.”

World Want Moving This World Greatness Letting Go Gravity Forsake

Author:David Platt

“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

Men World Inspirational Has Beens Motivational Given Stuff Can Do Responsibility This World Greatness Excellence

Book:Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.”

“In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.”

Source: The Kingdom of this World

“I'm not falling anymore. That's what L says, and she's right. I guess you could say I'm flying. We both are. And I'm pretty sure somewhere up there in the real blue sky and carpenter bee greatness, Amma's flying, too. We all are, depending on how you look at it. Flying or falling, it's up to us. Because the sky isn't really made of blue paint, and there aren't just two kinds of people in this world, the stupid and the stuck. We only think there are. Don't waste your time with either-with anything. It's not worth it.”

People Thinking World Looks Kind Made Two Real Fall Sky Stupid This World Greatness Waste Blue Paint Stuck Flying Bees Worth It Blue Sky Carpenter Don't Waste Your Time Not Worth It Amma

Author:Kami Garcia

“Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.”

World Looks Whole Eye Vision Seeing This World Greatness Color Awe Other Worlds Blink Eyeballs

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

“I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.”

World Inspirational Doe Motivational Courses Waiting Sleep Walks Destiny This World Greatness Succeed Defeat Refuse Lions Sheep Persist Veins My Destiny Slaughterhouses

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.”

World Ideas Lying Religious This World Greatness Organization Convinced Tyranny Catholicism Tyrants Intolerance Fanaticism Mein Kampf Religious Intolerance Religious Fanatics

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.”

Men World Mind Heart Made Today Past Emotion Beauty Generations This World Greatness Appearance Impulse Women Beauty Past Generations

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.”

Source: The Republic

“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.”

World Stills Reason Done Easy Difficult Plans Achieve This World Greatness Planning Sage Difficult Things Achieve Greatness

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War