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The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.

Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

I am by Nature made for my own good; not for my own evil.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

The demons of depression could find no foothold when he was around

The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.

Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours