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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

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

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

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

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

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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