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

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

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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