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The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

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

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

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.

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.

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

General propositions do not decide concrete cases.

Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.

No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined 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.

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

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

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

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

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

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.

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.

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