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

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

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

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.

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

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.