Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, read more

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smiling
face,/ It's nothing against you to read more

You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smiling
face,/ It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's
a disgrace.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has read more

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal read more

Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to
discipline your life. No matter how read more

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to
discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be
willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to
the top.