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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.