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

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

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