A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Action expresses priorities.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

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 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.

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

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.