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

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

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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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