Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

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.