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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord.

If you want liberty you yourselves must strike the blow. If you must be free you must become so through your own effort, through your own initiative.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.

I try to scare myself at least once a day.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances.

No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.

The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.

To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.

No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.

Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.