Strength
What seems but idle show strengthens and supports the rest.
From “The Builders”
Look not mournfully into the past. Wisely improve the present. Go forth to meet the future without fear.
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but by toiling upward in the night.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.
All quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow →
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.