Wisdom Quotes

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.