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It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.

Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

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.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.

One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time.

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Every struggle is a victory.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.

No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.

A man must so train his habits as to rely upon his own powers and depend upon his own courage in moments of emergency.

Courage may be displayed in everyday life as well as in historic fields of action.

Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable.

Difficulties may intimidate the weak, but they act only as a wholesome stimulus to men of resolution and valour.

Providence treats us like a generous father, and brings us up to labors, toils, and dangers; whereas the indulgence of a fond mother makes us weak and spiritless.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming

There is little place in active life for the timid good man.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.