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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

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

A man worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.