There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

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

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.