There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from
within, from one's own efforts.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from
within, from one's own efforts.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

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

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.

We must find a way, or we will make one.

We must find a way, or we will make one.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even a s Michelangelo painted, or read more

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that
all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a
great streetsweeper who did his job well.

If you can walk, you can run.

If you can walk, you can run.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance
run.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance
run.