All quotes

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.

Concentration makes the individual life simpler and deeper.

Each day there should be fresh resolution, new strength, and renewed enthusiasm.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying.

Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty.

Happiness is the voice of optimism, of faith, of simple, steadfast love.

The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.

If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

The power of one person — Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala — one person can change the world by giving people hope.

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

You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

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.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.

Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in