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Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

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

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

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

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.

he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best

Work is the law of our being--the living principle that carries men and nations onward.

Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.

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.

success--the real success--does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.

Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.