Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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