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You must make up your mind to steady and earnest work. You must be content to get on slowly if you only get on thoroughly.

It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

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

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

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

Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.

With perseverance, the very odds and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value.

hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

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.

Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue.

You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor.

Many hands make light work.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.