Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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

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

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

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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

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

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.