"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
– James Allen
"Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting."
– Napoleon Bonaparte
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
– Albert Camus
"It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.”
– Edward Gardner
"No man ever yet became great through imitation."
- Samuel Johnson
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 5
