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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

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

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

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

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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

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

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