What separates a great man from an ordinary man?

The great man thinks, and you and I also think. But there is a difference — We think, and our bodies do not follow. Our actions do not harmonize with our thoughts. Our words have not the power of the words that become the source of inspiration for others. Whatever the great man thinks must be accomplished. If they say, “I’d do this,” the body does it. You can think of things larger than the greatest man in one minute, but your body does not do it. That is the difficulty. The great man becomes what they think, we become only by a few degrees.
Shri Krishna preached in the midst of the battlefield, “He who in the midst of intense activity finds himself in the greatest calmness, and in the greatest peace finds intense activity, that is the greatest as well as the wisest man.