Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you
Interpretation
True greatness lies in the impact you have on others, rather than in your own achievements.
This quote emphasizes that greatness is not defined by individual success or personal accolades, but rather by the positive influence one can have on others. It suggests that the true measure of a person's greatness is reflected in how they inspire, uplift, and empower those around them, fostering growth and potential in others.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about leadership and the importance of mentoring others.
When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory , cause you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther.
The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.
I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.
Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd say he's a liar or there's something wrong with him. I'd send him to a doctor to find out what the hell's the matter with him, because this is not a normal reaction. The fighter that's gone into the ring and hasn't experienced fear is either a liar or a psychopath.
Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.
To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.
There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
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