Quotes
A small commonplace book — lines worth returning to.
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”