The cure for this ill is not to sit still.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

There is no education like adversity.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.