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While the thought held possession of her, she could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.

When I find my work particularly difficult and discouraging, she writes me letters that make me feel glad and brave; for she is one of those from whom we learn that one painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author’s best education, and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.

What pulled Scott through was character, sheer good grain, which ran over and under and through his weaker self and clamped it together.

If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you.

out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed

I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.

My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.

The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be for him.

My dear Laelius and Scipio, we must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains.

And when you fall throughout life—and maybe even tonight after a few too many glasses of champagne—fall forward.

I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition, and the next audition, and the next one.