#prove

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#doubt #fool #going #greatest #greatest obstacle

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works. ↗

— Louise L. Hay

#approve #everything #exactly #find #i

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#actually #believe #could #i #i believe

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#improvement #mainly #progress #society #workingmen

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#examination #great #imagined #immense #knowledge

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#any #helps #kind #literature #more

We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas. ↗

— John Hench

#along #any #because #better #budget

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#back #came #convinced #home #hoping

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#approve #commit #die #kids #marry

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#annoying #believe #born #children #hard