“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”
Quote by Horace
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“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
Source: Commencement Addresses
“The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.”
“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.”
“Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.”
“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.”
Source: Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”
Source: The works of mencius