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

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

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

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.