"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts." ― James Russell Lowell Topic(s): Great More From James Russell Lowell "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." "To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires." More In Great "The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."― Swami Sivananda "The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."― Thomas Jefferson "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."― Robert Kennedy