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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get read more
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth read more
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.
Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
If a man does his best, what else is there?
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even a s Michelangelo painted, or read more
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that
all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a
great streetsweeper who did his job well.
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give read more
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing