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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.
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I was thrown out of work, and now that I had got into the habit of writing I did not know what to make of my spare time.
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We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.
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The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.
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The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.
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Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.
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If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.
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Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.
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Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.
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Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
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To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
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The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Work is the law of our being--the living principle that carries men and nations onward.
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Life must needs be disgusting alike to the idle rich man as to the idle poor man, who has no work to do, or, having work, will not do it.
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A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it, and what he feels in it.
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A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·The Strenuous Life, an address before the Hamilton Club, Chicago·April 10, 1899
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If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow?
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Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.