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

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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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