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.

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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.