to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another
step forward.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another
step forward.

School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.

School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most
despise, bureaucrats.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most
despise, bureaucrats.

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain read more

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out read more

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.