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At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.

Courage returns as we gaze; when we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.

Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life

I’m not a bit changed--not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me--back here--is just the same.

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.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

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

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

A man must have the courage to be himself, and not the shadow or the echo of another.

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

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better

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

If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

Mere intelligence is still not courage, for we often see the cleverest people devoid of resolution.

There are persons who possess the keenest perception for the most difficult problems, who are also not fearful of responsibility, and yet in cases of difficulty cannot come to a resolution.

It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any.