There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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