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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.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.

Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.

The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.

The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.

Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.

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.

By flight alone we cannot overcome, but by endurance and true humility we are made stronger than all our enemies.

I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.

A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.

If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.

My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.

Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.

he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.