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Life is a verb. We try our best. We don’t always do our best.
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Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.
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It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy.
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.
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Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.
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Self-love is mainly to blame, making people fond of being first and aspiring in all matters, and insatiably desirous to engage in everything.
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All the toys that infatuate men, and which they play for
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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or the place.
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Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.
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One can only say 'God help us!' and plod on our weary way, cold and very miserable, though outwardly cheerful.
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Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.
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It never seems to them that they have served enough; they have a fine impatience of their virtues.
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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.
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To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire.
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All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.
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Courage may be displayed in everyday life as well as in historic fields of action.
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Energy of temperament, with a moderate degree of wisdom, will carry a man further than any amount of intellect without it.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.
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Failure in any good cause is, however, honourable, whilst success in any bad cause is merely infamous.
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In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful
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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.
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The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.