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

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.