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.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

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