Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

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

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

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

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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