#greatness

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#decent #decent people #goes #greatness #just

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#capability #check #depressed #design #empty

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be! ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#god #greatness #life #religion #trust

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #opinion #permission #success

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #sorrow #love

One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about.
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— Jarod Kintz

#government #greatness #jail #money #prisons

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder. ↗

— J.A. Konrath

#quotable #biology

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#amazing #change #creating #enhancement #greatness

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#essays #great-men #greatness #men

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#greatness #imitation #learning #men