Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

– Helen Keller

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

– Albert Schweitzer

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

– Albert Einstein

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

– Mahatma Gandhi

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

– George Washington

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

– George Eliot

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.

– Winston Churchill

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

– Nelson Mandela

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal which is worthwhile.

– Vince Lombardi