If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

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

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

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