The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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