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Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends--those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result.

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

His capacity for work was prodigious, and when his own work happened to take less than his full time he characteristically found activity in serving a scientist or exercising an animal.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.

The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

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

I want to fall… forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

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

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

Man should make an art of thinking.