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The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.

To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.

No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.

Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.

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

Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.

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

who did not delay for any formal vote to empower him to do so, but followed him because he was born to command

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.

He who is wise tries to harmonise the wishes that seek for self-gratification with the wish for the social good, and only thus can he realise his higher self.

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

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide

I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

Above all, he must guard and you must guard him against indolence. Make him a strenuous man. I had to force myself into being strenuous as you know--had always an inclination to be idle.