Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Great men grow.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

I enjoyed my 15 years at the top, and now I enjoy watching the current crop. What I did, maybe they can't do, and what they do, perhaps I couldn't do. It's like that. I wanted to simply be the best. On a professional level, I wanted to be No. 1, and I worked hard to be that.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

It is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individuals, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in the present; but it is an excellent thing to study the history of the great deeds of the past, and of the great men who did them, with an earnest desire to profit thereby so as to render better service in the present.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out.

I want to be the best professional and the greatest role model I can be.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

We have never met the Fox God in person but he assigns us inconceivable challenges, so he is crucial for the progress and growth of Babymetal.

You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I've done it all - I'm good. Now, it's about setting an example for others to follow. I can't just talk it - I have to live it.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow.