Samuel Smiles

"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."

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

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

"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."

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