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

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

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

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

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

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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