Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
- Topic: Action, Work
- Location: Lake Powell
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
