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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
“If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will be no hope of improvement.”
“To be successful at anything, the truth is you don't have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren't. Consistent, determined, and willing to work for it.”
“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
“If principles can become dated, they’re not principles.”
“Do it with passion, or not at all.”
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”
“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”
“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”
“Failure is just feedback”
Greatness locks in on high-value opportunities and cuts everything else, because diluted focus produces diluted results, and the most productive men are rarely the busiest ones but the most selective about where their energy goes.
“Better to starve free than be a fat slave.”
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
“Don't find fault. Find a remedy.”
“Confidence is deciding you’re unstoppable. Not that you’ll never fail.”
“Rejection and perseverance are two very critical ingredients to succeed at literally any goal that you put your mind to.”
“What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“You give before you get.”
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“Forgive yourself for what you didn't know until you learned it.”
Principle of the Day
Greatness forgives himself for past mistakes and refuses to carry guilt forward, because guilt keeps him tied to who he was while releasing it frees the energy he needs to become who he is capable of being.
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Pillars of Greatness
Types of Insight
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!”
Greatness focuses on the process rather than the outcome, because it is the part he controls, and executing it at a high level consistently produces better results than chasing outcomes.
“If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.”
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.”
“Some people grow under responsibility; others merely swell.”
“Your first attempt might not be very good, but nobody’s early work is good. There will always be a gap between where you are and where you want to be. And the bridge between that gap is courage.”
“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”
“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”
“There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”
“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.”
“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”
“Do what you love and the money will follow.”
Greatness builds rapport quickly by finding common ground and making people feel genuinely understood, because that trust removes the resistance that keeps people from fully receiving his ideas, his leadership, and his influence.
“I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own.”
“Victory is only wrested by running risks.”
“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.”
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
