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Your life will be wasted if you go away from here and have not learned that the greatest lesson of all is the lesson of brotherly love, of usefulness and of charity.

Resolve to remain as strong, as determined and as highly enthused during the darkest night of adversity as you are during the sunniest day of prosperity.

Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of Nature in a spirit of humility.

The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.

Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.

True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose, even though the attempt should not be crowned with eventual success.

Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue's opportunity.

So, if you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.

There is no royal road to the control of the brain.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.