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The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.
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102
What is done in business must be well done; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work, than to half-do ten times as much.
103
With perseverance, the very odds and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value.
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Work educates the body, as study educates the mind; and that is the best state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's work.
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Work in moderation is healthy, as well as agreeable to the human constitution.
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hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
107
Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue.
108
A wise man is never so busy as in the solitary contemplation of God and the works of Nature.
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Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.
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If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.
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Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better
Theodore Rooseveltverified·Citizenship in a Republic, in African and European Addresses·April 23, 1910
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming
Theodore Rooseveltverified·Citizenship in a Republic, in African and European Addresses·April 23, 1910
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If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it.
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Genius is 1 per cent. inspiration and 99 per cent. perspiration.
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Life seems terribly foreshortened as they look back and the mountain they set themselves to climb in youth turns out to be a mere spur of immeasurably higher ranges when, by failing breath, they reach the top.
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When I hear some of my young friends complain of want of sympathy and encouragement, I am inclined to think that my naval life was not the least valuable part of my education.
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I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.
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Struggle, work, fight as I would, I seemed to get nowhere and accomplish nothing.
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The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.
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Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.
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Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.
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Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.