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High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.
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Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.
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Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.
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Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams.
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But the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself,--his present seeking to excel his past.
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If we seek ever to surpass ourselves, we are moving on a uniform line of progress, that gives a harmonious unifying to our growth in all its parts.
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Life is but a succession of opportunities. They are for good or evil,--as we make them.
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Man can develop his self-reliance by seeking constantly to surpass himself.
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Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them.
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To him, defeat is no more than passing through a tunnel is to a traveller,--he knows he must emerge again into the sunlight.
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He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
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In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
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Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
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Cast down your bucket where you are.
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Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.
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A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.
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The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
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Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.
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Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.
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Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.
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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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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
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Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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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.