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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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