A.R. Von Quotes
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inner life.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.
Though the mills of God grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small Though with patience He stands waiting with exactness grinds he all.
If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow- No night but hath its morn.
Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.