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Such is man, and so must he be understood by those who would lead him, even to his own best interests.

If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery.

Somehow in judging polar life you must discount compulsory endurance; and find out what a man can shirk, remembering always that it is a sledging life which is the hardest test.

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

While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason.

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.

To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.

Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.

We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.

Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

A man must so train his habits as to rely upon his own powers and depend upon his own courage in moments of emergency.

Energy of temperament, with a moderate degree of wisdom, will carry a man further than any amount of intellect without it.

Self-respect, originating in self-love, instigates the first step of improvement.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

But the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself,--his present seeking to excel his past.