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Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

For equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense.

Free trade in labour and equality of training, intellectual or physical, is essential if the organic aptitudes of a sex or class are to be determined.

That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.

Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

I won't have a problem with you if you aim high and miss, but I will have a real problem if you aim low and hit.

If you’re going to do a job, do it right.

Above all, he must guard and you must guard him against indolence. Make him a strenuous man. I had to force myself into being strenuous as you know--had always an inclination to be idle.

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.

The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.

The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.

The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.

Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.

Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.