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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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