Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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

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

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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

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

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

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

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