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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

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

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

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

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

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

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