Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.