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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best read more
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new read more
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living read more
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. read more
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was read more
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.