No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

It's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.