Inspirational Quotations on Great

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
—William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

You must learn to see men and women…as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.
—Michelangelo (1475–1564) Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet, Engineer

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

I will trust and not be afraid.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

I rest not from my great task!
To open the Eternal Worlds,
to open the immortal Eyes of Man
Inwards into the Worlds of Thought;
Into eternity, ever expanding
In the Bosom of God,
The Human Imagination
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville (1747–1830) French Dancer, Actress

You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Fear is a great instructor.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty—one moment thinking “perhaps” and the next moment thinking “I don’t know”—will never get desired results.
—Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) American New Thought Writer, Teacher

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position, through the alliance, to absorb the power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer

After climbing a great hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended.
—Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader

Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

The greatest happiness that you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
—William Saroyan (1908–81) American Playwright, Novelist

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.
—John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic

I’ve always believed in magic. When I wasn’t doing anything in this town, I’d go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch out my arms, and say, “Everybody wants to work with me. I’m a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers”. I’d just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple movies lined up. I’d drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, “Movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet”. It was like total affirmations, antidotes to the stuff that stems from my family background.
—Jim Carrey (b.1962) Canadian Actor, Comedian, Producer

There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage