Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
No pressure, no diamonds.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Work alone is noble.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
