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There is no royal road to the control of the brain.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

Your life will be wasted if you go away from here and have not learned that the greatest lesson of all is the lesson of brotherly love, of usefulness and of charity.

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

Resolve to remain as strong, as determined and as highly enthused during the darkest night of adversity as you are during the sunniest day of prosperity.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of Nature in a spirit of humility.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.

The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.

Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue's opportunity.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

If you want liberty you yourselves must strike the blow. If you must be free you must become so through your own effort, through your own initiative.

To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord.

Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.

The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.

True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.