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.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

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

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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