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You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

Never be discouraged. Never hold back. Give everything you’ve got.

I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition, and the next audition, and the next one.

but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy

Baffled, discountenanced, subdued, discredited, as the cause of justice and humanity is, it will be only the dearer to me.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault; for God has made all men to be happy, to be free from perturbations.

In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.

To admit failure at this stage was hard, but the facts had to be faced.

The demons of depression could find no foothold when he was around

The time for renewed action was coming, and though our situation was grave enough, we were facing the future hopefully.

His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.

Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.

At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.

Had it not been for the persistent encouragement of Miss Sullivan, I think I should have given up trying to write altogether.

Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.