A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.

If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.

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.

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.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?

It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?

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.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

If a man does his best, what else is there?

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.