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.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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

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

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

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

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