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To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.

Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a great purpose should fix the thoughts upon the faultless performance of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.

Doubt is of two natures, and we often confuse a wise suspension of judgment with the weakness of hesitation.

Moreover, the result in the long run will depend not so much on some single resolution, or on our action in a special case, but rather on the preparation of daily life.

Our duty is to make ourselves useful, and thus life may be most interesting, and yet comparatively free from anxiety.

The body ceases to grow in a few years; but the mind, if we will let it, may grow as long as life lasts.

If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man—the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.

We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.

Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.

Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Self-respect, originating in self-love, instigates the first step of improvement.

Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.

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

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