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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.

No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.

No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

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

The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

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.

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them

who did not delay for any formal vote to empower him to do so, but followed him because he was born to command

He who is wise tries to harmonise the wishes that seek for self-gratification with the wish for the social good, and only thus can he realise his higher self.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

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

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide

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

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.