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Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?

If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.

Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man—the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

With tireless energy and eager zeal, colored women have, since their emancipation, been continuously prosecuting the work of educating and elevating their race, as though upon themselves alone devolved the accomplishment of this great task.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.

We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.

Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.

Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.

there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.

Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.