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Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man

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

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.

the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress

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.

And yet, in spite of the opposition encountered, and the obstacles opposed to their acquisition of knowledge and their accumulation of property, the progress made by colored women along these lines has never been surpassed by that of any people in the history of the world.

Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.

Nevertheless, he who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.

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.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.

Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

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.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go any where, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.