All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.