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

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

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

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

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

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