Becoming Great Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Greatness

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• Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

  Cher

  Littles, Looks, Forget

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• You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great.

  Blake Griffin

  Falling In Love, Process, Fall

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• Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

  William James

  Focus, Woods, Heat

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• I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.

  Katie Leclerc

  Jobs, Coffee, Years

  "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Greatness, Men

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• I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Thinking, Self

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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