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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed

I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.

These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War

Competence to age is supplementary youth; a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had.

Expect no healthy conclusions from me this month, reader; I can offer you only sick men's dreams.

Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

Independently of the rigours of attendance, I have ever been haunted with a sense (perhaps a mere caprice) of incapacity for business.

It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges, whom I have left behind in the world, carking and caring; like horses in a mill, drudging on in the same eternal round--and what is it all for?

The partners, and the clerks, with whom I had for so many years, and for so many hours in each day of the year, been closely associated--being suddenly removed from them--they seemed as dead to me.

The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.

I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition, and the next audition, and the next one.

You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

Perhaps when all is written courageously, I shall have no courage left to publish it.

The outlook was cheerless indeed, but much work had to be done and we could not yield to the desire to remain in the sleeping-bags.

The task now was to secure the safety of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental power and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me.

The task of keeping the galley fire alight was both difficult and strenuous, and it took his thoughts away from the chances of immediate dissolution.

The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

There are some men who will do more than their share of work and who will attempt more than they are physically able to accomplish.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.

It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

Let your doubt be to yourself, your decision to them.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.