It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

... then the world 's mine oyster.

... then the world 's mine oyster.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve read more

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

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.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to
shut our eyes against read more

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to
shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the
siren, till she transforms us into beasts.

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have read more

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the read more

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.