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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.