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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

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

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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