Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty, instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself- and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.
Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.
There is no movement without our own resistance.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties, a creature whose function is to solve problems?
