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The main cause of unhappiness isn’t in the experience, but how you think and feel about it. So how about thinking awesome things…a lot…about everything. What if instead of seeing the flaws in others, all we saw was the greatness, the brilliance.
My Darling One and I decided some time ago that this would be our one new thing to experience this year…looking for and finding the greatness in others. Yes, that includes the idiot drivers on the road, the difficult people we might meet, the bores, the loud mouths, the…well you get my point.
As you can see this is an important skill, highly relevant to our everyday life. We just have to get a little better at it so that we don’t have to see these characteristics in ourselves because, truth be told, we know how life laws operate and we wouldn’t see the petty and the small or the great and the noble in others, unless it was in us too. Ouch!
We’re working on looking at everyone through the eyes of love.
Throughout the centuries our writers and poets and artists have found ways to cut through the hubub of life and put ideas that might be difficult to hear and understand, into simple words. Words that reach us at our deepest level. Words that touch our soul and remind us of our very own greatness quotient.
As you know I’m a big fan of quotes, and today I wanted to share 21 brilliant quotes on the greatness that you are, the greatness you have within you, the greatness that is yours for the taking, in my tiny attempt to let you see yourself through the eyes of love. Here’s my rainbow of quotes and may you find a ray of sunshine or your very own pot of gold.
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ~ Napoleon Hill
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. ~ Jack Kerouac
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. ~ Oprah Winfrey
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ G. K. Chesterton
Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly. ~ Steve Maraboli
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. ~ Rumi
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
Our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary. ~ C. JoyBell C.
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~ Michael Jordan
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one’s spirit, not a result of one’s rank in human affairs. ~ Sherman Finesilver
The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. ~ Bertrand Arthur William Russell
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. ~ Wilma Rudolph
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought. ~ Blaise Pascal
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
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. Tony Robbins
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. Sheryl Sandberg
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough. Marissa Mayer
If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump
Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it. Chinese proverb
You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. And if you don’t play you can’t win. Judith McNaught
If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Oprah Winfrey
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Denis Waitley
Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. Jimmy Carter
The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations. Deepak Chopra
Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle
You get what you settle for. Thelma and Louise
If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. Dhirubhai Ambani
I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness. Kanye West
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not. Deepak Chopra
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
Leap and the net will appear. Zen Saying
I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous. Sidney Crosby
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small. Tim Ferriss
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
Your dreams are ballbusters; they’re not the yellow brick road. Kelly Cutrone
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Annie Dillard
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act. Andre Malraux quotes
Every man dies, but not every man really lives. Braveheart
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. J.K. Rowling
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb
Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. Jack Canfield
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. Mark Twain
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. George Addair
Screw it, Let’s do it! Richard Branson
You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you. Marissa Mayer
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. Billy Wilder
I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. Albert Einstein
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. Iveta Cherneva
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting. Karl Wallenda
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
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