Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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

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

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

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

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

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

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