A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
~ Helen Keller, 1880-1968

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~ Abraham Lincoln

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
~ Pearl Buck

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
~ Thomas Carlyle

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes