Destiny and Overcoming

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man.

Everyone thinks because it is solely responsible for the wisdom or folly of his life, that is to say of his destiny.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

Greatness is a road that leads toward something unknown.

By losing your goal—you have lost your way, too!

It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

The block of granite which was an obstacle on the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone on the pathway of the strong.

The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it; and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue.