It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

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

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

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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