Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.