It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get read more

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth read more

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing

You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer
life depend on the labors of read more

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer
life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that
I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I
have received and am still receiving.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.