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.

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

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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

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