Louisa May Alcott Quotes

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

Small aim is a crime.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.

When I first got into the sport, or first got into athletics, I always felt that sense of responsibility that I was destined for something bigger, that I was going to do something major.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.