American
Activist and
Author
(June 27,
1880 -
June 1,
1968)
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. "
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."
"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
