Quotes from Mary Lyon

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

Trust in God and do something.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.