Sentence examples for Attain greatness from inspiring English sources

Neither Twain (from antebellum Missouri) nor Chaplin (from the slums of Victorian Lambeth) seemed to notice that his own origins were as lowly as Shakespeare's, yet they both managed to attain greatness.

The ones that succeed usually attain greatness by abandoning everything they set out to do and figuring out something altogether new that was only revealed through the disastrous failure of the original idea.

Perhaps this will give her oomph in adulthood to stretch and attain greatness.

"He's a very defensive fighter," Steward said, "because he's afraid of being hurt, so afraid that he may never attain greatness.

To attain greatness and a place in the annals of history, Mr. Modi has a lot more to prove than we can demand.

At an early moment in "Gaamer," the main character, a young man named Koss, listens as a friend in their hardscrabble Ukrainian town tells him it's impossible to attain greatness "in this hole".

But, clearly, he also saw in the experiments a vehicle for attaining greatness.

Kevin D. Johnson believes "the potential for attaining greatness is in creating new markets".

Every time he attains greatness in a novel, it is by bringing us inside a character whose most salient feature is that he or she is old.

Start-Up Kevin D. Johnson believes "the potential for attaining greatness is in creating new markets," and Margie Warrell thinks you should take a risk because the odds are better than you think.

It doesn't take courage to cast your lot with the winning side, with the sure bet; it's only in defying odds, expectations and the political mob that one attains greatness.