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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
What you are will show in what you do.
What you are will show in what you do.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.
The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than read more
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been
accomplished without enthusiasm.
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been
accomplished without enthusiasm.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
