Top 200 Greatness Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”

— Jim Rohn

152. “A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

— Chanakya

153. “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

— Colin Powell

154. “For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.”

— Jim Rohn

155. “I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else’s life better then you are wasting your time.”

— Will Smith

156. “The temptation for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.”

— Mike Tyson

157. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.”

— Tony Hsieh

158. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

159. “You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!”

— Eric Thomas

160. “I don’t think limits.”

— Usain Bolt

161. “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

— Thomas Carlyle

162. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius

163. “Greatness exists in all of us.”

— Will Smith

164. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”

— Jim Rohn

165. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”

— Bruce Lee

166. “Live a life worth remembering.”

— Bruce Lee

167. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”

— Walt Disney

168. “When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’”

— Tom Preston-Werner

169. “Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

— Robert H. Schuller

170. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

— Michael Jordan

171. “Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.”

— Denzel Washington

172. “The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”

— Jim Rohn

173. “Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”

— Jim Rohn

174. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

175. “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.”

— Derek Jeter

176. “Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.”

— Jim Rohn

177. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

178. “If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there’s no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you’re safe, you’ll never soar!”

— Steve Harvey

179. “Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

— Jim Rohn

180. “If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”

— Robin Williams

181. “America is too great for small dreams.”

— Ronald Reagan

182. “Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.”

— Jim Rohn

183. “Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”

— Jim Rohn

184. “All I knew was that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.”

— Michael Jordan

185. “Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

— Pope John Paul II

186. “I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I’ve met, and I think that I thrive on that.”

— Michael Jordan

187. “The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.”

— Woodrow Wilson

188. “If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens.”

— J. J. Watt

189. “Don’t LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

190. “I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.”

— Kobe Bryant

191. “Commit to becoming breathtakingly great in all you do. And that’s what you’ll become.”

— Robin S. Sharma

192. “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

193. “This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name.”

— Mike Shinoda

194. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”

— Robert Browning

195. “If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.”

— Kobe Bryant

196. “You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret.”

— Charlie Chaplin

197. “Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

— Larry Bird

198. “Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.”

— Ray Lewis

199. “Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!”

— Denis Waitley

200. “I wanna be the best, simple and plain.”

— Kobe Bryant