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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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