The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.