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I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.

There is no short road to the realization of these aspirations.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.