Without struggle there is no progress.
- Topic: Adversity
- Location: Haleakala National Park, Hana, Hawaii, Maui, Seven Sacred Pools
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
