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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming

There is little place in active life for the timid good man.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

success--the real success--does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.

In this life we get nothing save by effort.