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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.