“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“Greatness does happen all in one day, just one day at a time.”— Adam (via ADAMJCP), quotemadness.com
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates…and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“Great things don’t happen in tiny little increments. You know, they happen when someone thinks completely differently.”— Sheila Callaghan, Lip Gallagher, Jeremy Allen White, imdb.com
“So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do—the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others -- playing people against one another, making them pursue you.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables; be deliberately unpredictable.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“You're worthy of greatness, even if you don't see it yet.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles but how to overcome them.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.”— Neil Strauss, amazon.com
“They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what — those flaws almost made them greater.”— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter, amazon.com
“Perhaps he could not tell his greatness from ungreatness and so mixed them together that what was adulterated was lost.”— Robert Penn Warren, amazon.com
“Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.”— Herb Brooks, herbbrooksfoundation.com