Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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