The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

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

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.