An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
