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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

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

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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