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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

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

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

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

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