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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.