Top 100 Become Great Quotes
#1. To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles.
Garry Kasparov
#4. Become great in God's eyes so as to bring freedom to your people
Sunday Adelaja
#5. 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
#6. Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests.
Antal Szerb
#7. Institutions train men to be skilled;
the wilderness trains men to become great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. You become great by going small thing in a great way.
Zig Ziglar
#9. If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
Hesiod
#10. Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry
#11. Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves
Sunday Adelaja
#12. When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
Adam Braun
#13. Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.
Steven Johnson
#14. The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
Harry S. Truman
#15. Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Maria Montessori
#16. The student asked the master,
"Teacher, what should I do to become great?"
the master replied:
Succeed where others have failed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
James C. Collins
#18. Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?
Narendra Modi
#19. Most people have a perception that winners are born great. Winners aren't born great. They have become great by the virtue of doing a little extra to achieve greatness. That little extra effort accumulates to one day giving them the winning results when compared to the ordinary efforts of others.
Kevin Abdulrahman
#20. Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.
Francois Fenelon
#21. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#22. The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources.
Sunday Adelaja
#23. Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
Jon Gordon
#24. By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
George S. Patton
#26. Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
Bill Gates
#27. You don't become great, by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something and then doing it so hard, that you become great in the process.
Anonymous
#28. There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
Edmund White
#29. We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.
Christine Gregoire
#30. Middle children become great listeners. They understand the value of acknowledging others' positions and feelings, and use this information as ammunition to help them get what they want.
Catherine Salmon
#31. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
Marshall Goldsmith
#33. When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
Osho
#34. Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#35. I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great
Carlos Mencia
#36. How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain
Nietzsche Friedrich
#37. Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.
I-Ching
#39. There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe
#40. I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#41. Reading old Gray? That's right. Physician's library just three books: 'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare. Study. You may become great doctor.
Sinclair Lewis
#42. The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.
Renee Fleming
#43. We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.
Theodore Roosevelt
#44. We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#45. In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great.
Ilya Atani
#46. That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
Queen Victoria
#47. More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
#48. Whoever is inspired can become great.
Whoever inspires others is already great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#49. A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#51. Words are like shards of glass. By themselves they're worthless; however, when placed together in just the right way, they can become great works of art.
Leigh M. Lane
#52. Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.
Reed Hastings
#53. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.
Augusten Burroughs
#55. My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.
Grace Paley
#56. You become great when you are eager to find and nourish greatness in the hearts of others.
Debasish Mridha
#57. When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#58. Great women aren't born great, they become great.
Sabrina Newby
#59. Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.
James C. Collins
#60. Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.
Jon Gordon
#61. Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
William Hazlitt
#62. We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
#63. Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#64. We don't reach the world by becoming great, but by loving. Let us strive to become great at loving.
Hope D. Blackwell
#65. If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
Ivan Lendl
#66. The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William Hazlitt
#67. Institutions train you to be skilled;
the wilderness trains you to become great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.
John Earl Shoaff
#69. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
Phil Jackson
#70. The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
Francois Fenelon
#71. People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. one can never become great in Love as his Journey ends as soon as he falls in Love.
Abhishek Kothari
#74. Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.
Robert Kiyosaki
#75. I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.
Tim Rice
#76. Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
Brian D. McLaren
#77. We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty.
John Wooden
#78. become great friends with Grandmother.' Mrs Nesbitt informs me, in her sweet, winsome way, that it is extremely important for a woman in her position to have her own life and her own circle of friends. She would not, she adds, be averse to marrying again.
Tracy Rees
#79. We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves.
Debasish Mridha
#80. People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
Eva Le Gallienne
#81. Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say "I'll never be good". You can become better! and one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#82. I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
Jack Nicklaus
#83. You don't need to become great 1st to step into your greatness. Have you left your comfort zone and ventured out to unleash your greatness?
Assegid Habtewold
#84. We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others
Martin Luther King Jr.
#85. By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs.
Ryan Holmes
#86. It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#87. We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.
Elizabeth Smart
#88. When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
Plato
#89. So he did what all great men do, in the beginning, before they become great men. He stepped up.
Matt Wallace
#90. We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).
Seth
#92. You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
James E. Faust
#93. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Edward Hopper
#94. Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.
Andy Andrews
#95. Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.
Les Brown
#96. Broad Street marked the first time in history when a reasonable person might have surveyed the state of urban life and come to the conclusion that cities would someday become great conquerers of disease. Until then, it looked like a losing battle all the way.
Steven Johnson
#97. Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great
Tony Curl
#98. When we are confronted with death, we become great actors. Great actors, nothing more.
Sait Faik Abasiyanik
#99. Many great people have experienced some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true.
Marshall Vian Summers
