Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.