A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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