It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
I go to seek a great perhaps.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is m ...
Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.
No cause is hopeless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
I am forced to try to make myself laugh that I may not cry: For one or other I must do.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one’s faith, one’s love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Never give up.
Practice saying no.
Challenge the obvious.
When one must, one can.
Accept defeat gracefully.
Compete in an endurance race.
You never know until you ask.
Overcome your fear of failure.
Never be afraid to ask for help.
Without risk, there is no progress.
Don't avoid obstacles, learn to manage them.
Do something that scares you just a little bit.
If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything.
View obstacles in your life as challenges to overcome.
Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Avoid limitations created by routines and comfort zones.
Everyday, do something that makes you a little uncomfortable.
Have the courage to do something that you know others won't do.
When in doubt, the more difficult decision is usually the right one.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Our greatest glory is not in ever falling but in rising every time we fall.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
We will either find a way or make one.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
You have to endure what you can't change.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.