I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
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.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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