Samuel Smiles

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."