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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
A will finds a way.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say "amen" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

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