Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

To have a great idea have a lot of them.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress and you've seen the devil.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Mr. Chairman delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

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

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.