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One learns to itch where one can scratch.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul, for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

When in doubt, don't.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune, but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.