
I am grateful for all my problems. I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come.
- Topic: Adversity, Gratitude, Honesty
- Location: Grand Canyon National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
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.
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.
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.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
