Motivational quotes

Talking it all out seems to have done away with it, somehow. It’s very strange--and I thought it so real and bitter. It’s like opening the door of a dark room to show some hideous creature you’ve believed to be there--and when the light streams in your monster turns out to have been just a shadow, vanishing when the light comes.

Leslie finds that honestly confessing envy to Anne loosens its hold and allows their friendship to deepen.

They’re bound to come--and no house, whether it’s a palace or a little house of dreams, can bar ’em out. But they won’t get the better of you if you face ’em TOGETHER with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

Captain Jim tells the young couples that hardship will come, while love and trust can help them face it together.

I’d be real happy even if we couldn’t talk at all, when I come here--jest to sit and look at you and your pictures and your flowers would be enough of a treat.

Captain Jim tells Anne that her presence and welcoming home are enough to make a visit happy, even without conversation.

It is never too late to recognize truth and to live by it.

From Doing Our Best at All Times, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.

Living at one's best is constant preparation for instant use.

From Doing Our Best at All Times, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.

The honest, faithful struggler should always realize that failure is but an episode in a true man's life,--never the whole story.

From Doing Our Best at All Times, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.

The knell of lost opportunity is never tolled in this life.

From Doing Our Best at All Times, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success.

From Hurry, the Scourge of America, reflecting on rest and steady effort.

Hurry never realizes that slow, careful foundation work is the quickest in the end.

From Hurry, the Scourge of America, reflecting on rest and steady effort.

In the race for wealth men often sacrifice time, energy, health, home, happiness and honor,--everything that money cannot buy, the very things that money can never bring back.

From Hurry, the Scourge of America, reflecting on rest and steady effort.

Let us ever turn our face toward the future with confidence and trust, with the calmness of a life in harmony with itself, true to its ideals, and slowly and constantly progressing toward their realization.

From Hurry, the Scourge of America, reflecting on rest and steady effort.

Nature never hurries. Every phase of her working shows plan, calmness, reliability, and the absence of hurry.

From Hurry, the Scourge of America, reflecting on rest and steady effort.