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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
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It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.
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Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.
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Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.
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Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.
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Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.