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

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

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

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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