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.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

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

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

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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

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