“Every great achievement has a small beginning.”

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”

“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”

“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”

“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”

“To begin, I am a citizen of the world. The Earth is my country, and humanity is my nation. This is my motto: What everyone has longed for and will be achieved when all of the people shall also celebrate this prize that every Yemeni, and every Arab, and every human being and every woman has also won beside me.”

“No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”