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There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.