Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

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

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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

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

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.