Emotions and Feelings

Fortune favors the brave.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

He, who moves not forward, goes backward.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities, always see them for they are always there.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities, always see them for they are always there.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Learn to self conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.