Emotions and Feelings

What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is . . . for us humans.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Perhaps adversity is a great teacher, but he charges a high price for his lessons, and often the profit we take from them is not worth the price they have cost us.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence, no matter where the obstacles are encountered.

If men live decently it is because discipline Saves their very lives for them.

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties, the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help or pardon.

Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

The man who in wavering times is inclined to be wavering only increases the evil, and spreads it wider and wider; but the man of firm decision fashions the universe.

Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.

Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.

I know perfectly well the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

Cynic, n . A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.