Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

I'm proud that somebody like myself has made it to the very top.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I like seeing people achieve great things.

I do not know how it is to be a great player, to be a Hall of Famer. I want to learn.

I want to go down as one of the best, and that's not just going to happen in one day.

I have to plot my path to greatness.

For me, I don't want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

I want to be the best ever.

I'm in the NBA and I won a championship. I had some great things happen, but I'm not satisfied.

After I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl, it made me start to think that the only thing that marks greatness is consistency over a long period of time.

My ultimate goal was always that I want to be known as one of the greatest of all time. The first step was obviously to be UFC champion.

What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.

My dream is to win something here in Italy and I won't talk about scoring a specific number of goals. I just want to do the best I can.

Greatness is earned, not given.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.