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

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.