"Great hopes make great men."
- Thomas Fuller

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
- Robert H. Schuller

"The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it."
- Francis Bacon

What determines greatness and value?

"Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe