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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.

There was a Care on my Mind so to pass my Time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady Attention to the Voice of the true Shepherd.

I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.

Work is love made visible.

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.

The observed worker should be made to realize the purpose and importance of the measurement.

These possibilities of mental development are still further increased when the man makes his own records. This leads to closer attention, to more interest in the work, and to a realization of the man as to what the record really means, and what value it represents.

In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.

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

You must make up your mind to steady and earnest work. You must be content to get on slowly if you only get on thoroughly.

Shirking responsibility has never been a fault with which colored women might be truthfully charged.

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.