Problems and difficulties Quotes

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

My evil company hath been my bane, and sleep thereto remorseless.

Friends show their love in times of trouble

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph

Deep experience is never peaceful

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction

Error is discipline through which we advance

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Evil is whatever distracts.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat

Of two evils, choose neither