Top 200 Greatness Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

— Simon Sinek

52. “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

53. “Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”

— Denzel Washington

54. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

— Andrew Carnegie

55. “Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.”

— John Wooden

56. “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

— John F. Kennedy

57. “Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

58. “We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.”

— Steve Jobs

59. “Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.”

— Marianne Williamson

60. “Success is never on discount. Greatness is never on sale. Greatness is never half off. It’s all or nothing. It’s all day, every day. Greatness is never on discount.”

— Eric Thomas

61. “Listen to me, even when you lose, it’s OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it’s got to hurt.”

— Eric Thomas

62. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

63. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

— Napoleon Hill

64. “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.”

— Stephen R. Covey

65. “Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.”

— Robin S. Sharma

66. “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”

— Michael Jordan

67. “Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.”

— Robin S. Sharma

68. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.”

— Napoleon Hill

69. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

70. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

71. “You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

72. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

73. “What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.”

— Robin S. Sharma

74. “Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.”

— Bear Grylls

75. “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

76. “My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.”

— Michael Jordan

77. “There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.”

— Dwayne Johnson

78. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

79. “Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.”

— Grant Cardone

80. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

81. “If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.”

— Michael Jordan

82. “Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself!”

— Zig Ziglar

83. “Greatness lives on the edge of destruction.”

— Will Smith

84. “Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.”

— Robin S. Sharma

85. “If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value.”

— Myles Munroe

86. “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

87. “No one is you, and that is your power.”

— Dave Grohl

88. “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

89. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”

— Kobe Bryant

90. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind.”

— Brian Tracy

91. “You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!”

— Les Brown

92. “The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.”

— John C. Maxwell

93. “No one rises to low expectations.”

— Les Brown

94. “Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision.”

— Conor McGregor

95. “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

96. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.”

— Vince Lombardi

97. “Let the world know why you’re here, and do it with passion.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

98. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”

— Earl Nightingale

99. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

— Anatole France

100. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Steve Jobs