It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.
Epictetus, Discourses
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Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man…
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness…
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
I felt that my foot was upon the ladder and that I was bound to climb.
Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing…
Theodore Roosevelt, Address at the State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y.
Have patience, Candidate, as one who fears no failure, courts no success.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
By believing oneself to be the master of one’s thoughts one becomes so.
Émile Coué, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it…
Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh King
Never fear to be yourself. If Mental Science does not teach you to be yourself it teaches you nothing.
Thomas Troward, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
Select the thing you want to be, and then grow steadily into it.
William Walker Atkinson, Nuggets of the New Thought
The outcome of the battle is of no importance—but, how did you fight?
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
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Courage
No matter how great is the difficulty, when we finally face it with courage and confidence in ourselves, we seem to pull through somehow, and then we begin to wonder what we were scared about.
William Walker Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World
My mind is a centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression…
Thomas Troward, The Doré Lectures
…love is the World-alchemist and transmutes all to gold.
Annie Besant, The Spiritual Life
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Love
The cultivation of tender feelings breeds considerate regard for the sufferings of others.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
Marie Curie, The Discovery of Radium
We are all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass, How Can I Help?
Ah, seek the treasure of a mind at rest And store it in the treasury of Ease; Not worth a loyal heart, a tranquil breast, Were all the riches of thy lands and seas!
Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
If a man thinks truth, a lie cannot make a lodgment in his mind; if he thinks love, hate cannot disturb him; if he thinks wisdom, ignorance cannot paralyse him.
Annie Besant, Thought Power: Its Control and Culture
One to-day is worth two To-morrows…
Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth
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Motivation
The men of Wu and Yueh hate each other; yet, if they cross a river in the same boat and a storm overtake them, they help each other like the two hands.
Sun Tzu, The Book of War
Love and tenderness are qualities of humanity,
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi