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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from
within, from one's own efforts.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from
within, from one's own efforts.
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
If you can walk, you can run.
If you can walk, you can run.
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.
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.
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.
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 are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up.