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So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

Dreams without goals are just dreams, and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.

There is no short road to the realization of these aspirations.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.

Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.

Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.

To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.

Great men, I say, often rejoice at crosses of fortune just as brave soldiers do at wars.