“CREDIBILITY is about MANAGING COMMITMENTS. It is about having SELF-RESPECT enough to FOLLOW-THROUGH on your decisions, commitments and destiny. It is the ULTIMATE PRICE for GREATNESS”
“Even with him, even with your great teacher, I prefer the thing over the words, place more importance on his acts and life than on his speeches, more on the gestures of his hand than his opinions. Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
“There is no such thing as greatness”
“Accepting I m Bad too is a Great and Beautiful Maturity so far.”
“You re a key individual in the transformation of your nation”
“Thing is, he says, his chin resting on my head, there s no single way to be a badass. Your mother and aunts coming here and making new lives for themselves? Badass. My mother running her own firm even after she and my father divorced? Badass. You facing the obstacles in your path and reinventing yourself in the process? Badass. There s room for different kinds of greatness. Even if you cry doing it. Hell, especially if you cry doing it.”
“The greatest badluck that can befall a person is self-doubt. Fear can still push a man to greatness but not self-doubt: It would eat into all the possible chances of success one has instead. Stay bold. Stay on Course!”
“Val, said Father, “we don t expect you to understand this, but some of the things that make Peter . . . difficult . . . are the very things that might also make him great someday. “What about me? asked Valentine. “As long as you re telling fortunes. “Oh, Val, said Father. All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier. No greatness, then. Val, said Mother, goodness trumps greatness any day. Not in the history books, said Valentine. Then the wrong people are writing history, aren t they? said Father.”
“The formula for greatness: See yourself as great and ensure everyone else around you is as great as you are.”
“Failing to reach your objective is not the end The end is surrendering Succeeding in reaching your objective should not be your end Your end should be excellence Choosing between the end and your end Is choosing between insignificance and greatness”
“If you really want to be great at something you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.”
“If you wish to excell, if you hope to soar, you must expect to lose much of your family and many of your friends. Mediocrity is surrounded by numbers. Greatness is where the air gets thinner. You will have to choose. Choose wisely and do not ever run away from what you fear.”
“With meditating that she must die once, I have the patience to endure it now. ~~ Even so great men great losses should endure.”
“The older I get, the more I see the truth. Greatness can be found anywhere. It doesn t need grandeur. There s greatness in the ordinary. Maybe even more than elsewhere.”
“Life is simple. Live it with vigor and zest.”