All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.

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

Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

It is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved but by reflection force of character and judgment.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord but few of us are willing to do little things.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers pillow fights and things but I was used to always cry from loneliness.

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

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength but perseverance.

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

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things but only what is just whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

If you cannot do great things do small things in a great way.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.