Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Source: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2013) is an American TV series; Ambush.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Source: John Buchan; Montrose and Leadership (1930), p 24; republished in Men and Deeds (1977)

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Source: It’s a quote by CBS broadcaster Charles Kuralt who used to present a TV news segment called ‘On the Road’ (which is probably how the confusion arose). This particular statement by Kuralt was made in May 1996 to students of Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York:

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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Source: Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola’s De Re Metallica (1556). Complete Sentence: Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows Read More…

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Nothing great has been & nothing great can be accomplished without passion.

Source: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Lectures on the Philosophy of History Vol 1 of 3 (1832). Original Quote: We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible Read More…