“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
Greatness is not reserved for a select few. These quotes explore what it takes to do exceptional work, live with purpose, and push past mediocrity — not through talent alone, but through persistence, vision, and the refusal to settle.
“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”
“I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.”
“I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.”
“I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”
“Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.”
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”
“There is a woman at the begining of all great things.”
“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”