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

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

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

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

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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.