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

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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