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I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all.

It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot.

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

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as it were redeemed.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Surely civilization is old enough, surely mankind is mature enough so that we ought in our own lifetime to find a way to permanent peace.

Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a great purpose should fix the thoughts upon the faultless performance of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.

Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.

I seemed to have nothing left to live for.

Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.

Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.

An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.

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

it must be from one man that it receives its institutions at first, and upon one man that all similar reconstruction must depend

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.