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Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

Better late than never.

Where there's a will there's a way.

If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie. It’s just the way life is sometimes.

If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them.

But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.

Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

The spirit of liberty is the sovereign balm for every injury which our institutions may receive.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.