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The world's most profound success quotes and principles. Timeless wisdom from history's greatest minds, organized across 12 Pillars of Greatness. Scroll for daily inspiration, or go deep to improve any area of your life.
Pillars of Greatness
Types of Insight
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“I have been public on this, and I firmly, firmly believe that this notion of accountability for what you promise as a leader is as important as your integrity.”
“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”
“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”
“Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.”
“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
“Every single successful person has had to face moments when there was no reason or logic that indicated they should continue, zero motivation and inspiration. Still, they showed up and put one foot in front of the other anyway.”
“Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don’t know something.”
“Sales cures all. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.”
“A person who has achieved control over psychic energy and has invested it in consciously chosen goals cannot help but grow into a more complex being. By stretching skills, by reaching toward higher challenges, such a person becomes an increasingly extraordinary individual.”
“Big innovation lives right on the edge of ridiculous ideas.”
Greatness builds discipline by setting goals just beyond his comfort zone and following through, because every promise he keeps to himself builds the confidence and momentum to take on bigger challenges.
“There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.”
“Building a brand means knowing your story and building and sharing that story.”
“Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.”
“Don’t dismiss a good idea simply because you don’t like the source.”
“It is always your next move.”
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
“Never forget the three most powerful resources that you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness.”
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Success is not luck. It is engineered through proven principles, strategy, and relentless execution. The Greatness Club® brings together more than 3,000 years of previously scattered wisdom from history's greatest minds and organizes it into 12 Pillars of Greatness. Built for ambitious young men still building their path, it delivers battle tested insights on mindset, discipline, wealth, purpose, and influence. The real world skills conventional education rarely teaches. No fluff. No theory. Created by an entrepreneur who built businesses from the ground up, this is the resource he wished existed when he was starting out. Explore the principles, browse the quotes, and put them to work. The only cost is your commitment to greatness.
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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
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Greatness creates his own opportunities instead of waiting for them, because the man who moves without hesitation and without needing perfect conditions builds what others are still hoping the world will eventually hand to them.
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Pillars of Greatness
Types of Insight
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.”
“You cannot predict the future, but you can invent it.”
“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”
Greatness takes full responsibility when he does not deliver what he promised, without excuses or blame, because keeping his word includes owning the times he falls short, and that honesty is what makes people trust his word in the first place.
“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
“Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument.”
“If people haven’t laughed at your dreams, then you aren’t dreaming big enough. Just keep pushing forward.”
“True greatness is most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.”
“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.”
“The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.”
“You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.”
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Greatness catches small mistakes early, because left unchecked they compound, and a minor problem fixed immediately costs a fraction of what it takes to fix once it has grown into something expensive to ignore.
“If you don't produce, you won't thrive - no matter how skilled or talented you are.”
“The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one’s own powers.”
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
