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Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

There is no short road to the realization of these aspirations.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.

To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.