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

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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.

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

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

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