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

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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

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

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

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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