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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.
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102
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
103
To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord.
104
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.
105
Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.
106
The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.
107
We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.
108
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.
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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.
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It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.
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Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.
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To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
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No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.
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Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.
118
Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.
119
The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
121
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide
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The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
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Every man's first duty is, to improve, to educate, and elevate himself--helping forward his brethren at the same time by all reasonable methods.
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Industry enables men to earn their living; it should also enable them to learn to live.
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There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.