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

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

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

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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.