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High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.

Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.

Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.

Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams.

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, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

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.

Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.

There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

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

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

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.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.

The Constitution to which life was thus imparted contains within itself ample resources for its own preservation.

There is no doubt that a blizzard has a bewildering and numbing effect upon the brain of any one exposed to it.

The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.