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I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.

Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.

Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.

No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.

Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.

Nevertheless, he who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.

there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.

Free trade in labour and equality of training, intellectual or physical, is essential if the organic aptitudes of a sex or class are to be determined.

For equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense.

Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases.