A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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