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How you do anything is how you do everything.

Rather be an hour early than a minute late.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on.

One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go any where, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

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.

Desire is a manifestation of power.

Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.

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

You are to become a creator, not a competitor.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

There is no short cut to the making of these ideals into glad realities.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

Where there's a will there's a way.