When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength
and soul can be a true master. read more

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength
and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands
all of a person.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

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.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

If you are going through hell, keep going.