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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

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

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

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

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