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I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women.

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

TIME is a Master Worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat; equalizes the inequalities, and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing ‘impossible’ with time!

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue.

We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.