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

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

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

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

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

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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