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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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.

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