To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.