إننا غالباً ما نواجه كوارث الحياة وأحداثها في شجاعة نادرة وصبر جميل ، ثم ندع التوافه بعد ذلك تغلبنا على أمرنا . - Dale Carnegie

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

Shakespeare said, “Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Time after time, during the Civil War, Lincoln put a new general at the head of the Army of the Potomac, and each one in turn — McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Meade — blundered tragically and drove Lincoln to pacing the floor in despair. Half the nation savagely condemned these incompetent generals, but Lincoln, “with malice toward none, with charity for all,” held his peace. One of his favorite quotations was “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” And when Mrs. Lincoln and others spoke harshly of the southern people, Lincoln replied: “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.