Theodore Newton Vail quotes

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-- Theodore Newton Vail

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There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.
-- Theodore Newton Vail

#Character #Responsibility #Ideas

For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.
-- Theodore Newton Vail

#Determination #Government #Water

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes